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The Curiosity Conflict: The Struggle to Shift From Exploration to Exploitation
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Cringe tolerance: The psychological ability to absorb embarrassment, a key trait separating creators from critics.
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There's a psychological barrier that divides the world into two distinct camps. Those who build things, and those who only critique them. This barrier has nothing to do with technical skill, intelligence, or even opportunity. It's the ability to absorb embarrassment. It's what we might call cringe tolerance.
Every successful entrepreneur,
... See moreDoing brain laundry (separating my thoughts into lights and darks).
Update: left one dark thought in the lights, ruined the whole load.
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Doris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar
Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.