The Heart Is the Bottleneck
We don’t change our behavior out of shame, or punishment, or pressure, or even desire.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Weave the personal and the objective
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
You need to add an extra layer of value, giving people the context and perspective that only comes with true understanding.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Remember that all this work is designed to make it easier to produce meaningful results. Don’t make a hobby out of engineering a system so resilient that it can survive a nuclear war!
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
As our world gets more complex, chaotic, and unpredictable, this assumption gets riskier and riskier. The downsides of not benefitting from randomness become ever greater. That’s because the greatest breakthroughs usually come from connections that are unexpected, unusual, and unorthodox.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Wonder leaves the door open to the possibility that many things can happen not covered in any framework or checklist.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
The Anti-Book Club: having everyone learn the same method for highlighting and summarizing books,
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
The human brain has evolved to recognize patterns, perhaps more than any other single function. Our brain is weak at processing logic, remembering facts, and making calculations, but pattern recognition is its deep core capability.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
We honor those experiences and those decisions, while gently inviting those parts to open up once again.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
healing is not a linear, one-way process. It’s not that everything gets better and easier and happier all the time. Healing is not synonymous with self-improvement.