How to Life Hack
Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—the book you’re writing, the album, the movie—and staying there for a long, long time.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
I think a lot of people want to be but they don’t want to do . They want to have written a book, but they don’t want to write the book. They want to be fit, but they don’t want the tedium of working out. They’re ashamed of rejection and they’re ashamed of imperfection. I might want lots of people to subscribe to this Substack, but do I want to... See more
Ava • effort
"…everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Or they love to write books about how to write books, rather than actually writing...a book that might actually be about something. Bad advice is every- where. Build a following. Establish a platform. Learn how to scam the system. In other words, do all the surface stuff and none... See more
(Note the curious suggestion, in the term “life hack,” that your life is best thought of as some kind of faulty contraption, in need of modification so as to stop it from performing suboptimally.)