Beyond Overpreparation: How to Start Before You Feel Ready
When you sit down to finish something—whether it’s an explanatory email, a new product design, a research report, or a fundraising strategy—it can be so tempting to do more research. It’s so easy to open up dozens of browser tabs, order more books, or go off in completely new directions. Those actions are tempting because they feel like productivit
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waiting to feel ready before you start acting is how the knowing-doing gap widens.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
A common challenge for people who are curious and love to learn is that we can fall into the habit of continuously force-feeding ourselves more and more information, but never actually take the next step and apply it.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Organizing by actionability counteracts our tendency to constantly procrastinate and postpone our aspirations to some far-off future. PARA pulls these distant dreams into the here and now, by helping us see that we already have a lot of the information we need to get started. The goal of organizing our knowledge is to move our goals forward, not ge
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Planning creates direction. Preparation creates options. You need both, but most founders over-index on the former and under-invest in the latter.
Your plans are fantasies until they collide with reality because the world rarely reacts how you expect....
James Sinclair
Anything you might want to accomplish—executing a project at work, getting a new job, learning a new skill, starting a business—requires finding and putting to use the right information.