Highlights Newsletter: Three New Books 🍉
“Most people don’t want accurate information, they want validating information. Growth requires you to be open to unlearning ideas that previously served you.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: How to Rebound From a Mistake and Think Outside Your Constraints | James Clear
“Books are more likely to change minds than conversations.
There is too much happening internally during conversation:
Did that sound stupid?
What do they think of me?
Will I lose the friendship over this opinion?
Books can let you chew on an idea without social risk.”
There is too much happening internally during conversation:
Did that sound stupid?
What do they think of me?
Will I lose the friendship over this opinion?
Books can let you chew on an idea without social risk.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On Allowing Yourself to Be Happy and Full, and How Small Errors Compound | James Clear

I dove into work showing that highly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that they actually get worse with experience, even while becoming more confident—a dangerous combination. And I was stunned when cognitive psychologists I spoke with led me to an enormous and too often ignored body of work demonstrating that learning itself is bes
... See moreDavid Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
See, you only really learn when you’re surprised — when your previous idea of something was wrong.