The Heart Is the Bottleneck

It’s easy to undergo a unique experience like this one, and to walk right back into the same patterns and habits that had you dissatisfied in the first place.

The sooner you move from preparing to being present, the better your results will be.

Invest in your capacity to adapt, expecting your work and your life to change,

But you have to go beyond just collecting a bunch of links – social media has solved the problem of discovery for good.

And for my work, I think the growth edge is to give it away.

Every interaction with my notes serves a dual purpose: giving me ideas now, and giving me even more condensed ideas in the future. This is tremendously rewarding. Addicting even.

What you pay attention to grows

“I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do.

But the more fundamental need to take away something tangible from the experience of reading is one of the things driving the return of commonplace books – personal, curated collections of facts, insights, musings, quotes, and research originally invented in 19th century Europe as a way to deal with the information explosion of the Industrial Era.