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sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.
milk and cookies • why feeling lost might mean you’re finally doing it right
A rational decision-maker would simply ignore the bad options and keep waiting for the neutral-to-good ones. Alas, humans are prone to availability bias, so each additional bad option can go to your head. Instead of waiting, you’ll be tempted to lower your standards.
Cassie Kozyrkov • How I navigated my biggest career transition
“It is easier to swim in the sea than in a bathtub.”
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
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Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
... See moreYou can just turn off your phone at 5pm and see what the fuck happens.
Fuck the Cult of Productivity
As Peter Drucker said, “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time – literally – substantial and rapidly
... See moreGreg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Using McGilchrist’s terminology: for such an increasingly delusional, left hemisphere dominated mind everything turns into just another inanimate object: be it a beautiful 5000 year old tree, or a rich indigenous culture. Something which stands in the way of getting from point A to point B on the map (or standing in-between the selfish individual... See more