Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
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Eric Jorgenson • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Making Peace with Food: Embracing the Permission Paradox
Summary:
Making peace with food involves understanding that all foods fit, including Oreos.
The fear of never being able to stop eating when given permission to eat anything is often a result of past deprivation. Embracing the permission paradox allows individuals to truly evaluate their desire
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In summary, the Focusing Effect can significantly impact your decision-making and can lead to suboptimal outcomes and an overly narrow perspective. It pays to take a systematic and comprehensive approach to decision-making. That means gathering and evaluating multiple pieces of information, considering different perspectives, and weighing the
... See morePERENNIAL LEARNER • Would You Be Happier if You Were Richer?
The slow productivity mindset, by contrast, finds advantages to a more languid pace. Frequent cold starts can inject more creativity into your efforts, an effect Miranda seems to have leveraged in the uneven but insistent improvement of In the Heights. It also allowed him to explore and develop as both a creative and a human being. College
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“Don’t make stuff because you want to make money—it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous—because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people—and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.” —John Green
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
But this strategy of defense brings to mind the slogan Keep Austin Weird , which has since been repurposed for Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and other formerly groovy towns. These calls are sad because they fail the second they are uttered. When you are forced to demand the preservation of the weird, the shark hath jumped.
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
“The highest level of mastery is simplicity.
Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.”
Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.”
