May 23, 2024

1. I know what makes people grow more reliably than anything else. It is: taking on a difficult project with some amount of public accountability. This can be large or small: a lecture series, a business, a blog, a house, a child, etc.


2. It’s strange, but I know that it’s common to resist positive emotions, as well as negative ones. Ask

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you should drop everything you're doing right now and read this. one of the most beautiful articles i've read in a while. https://t.co/lZDe8NFZuW

Historically I’ve wrestled with this duality coming in contact with difficult problems. First, the level-headed, begrudging acceptance that yes, this is meant to be hard . In the same vein, I’m like god, why is this so hard? Sooner or later, I get over myself. It’s not that my problems are uniquely hard, they just generally take energy to solve and... See more