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Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
You are an evolving canvas, an unfolding story, a great work in the making. All you can do is imagine a world of possibilities and keep on experimenting until you discover what works. Each experience, whether a success or a failure by conventional standards, opens new doors, which you’ll pass through with new capability and wisdom. “What an
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With your curiosity running high, beware of the maximalist brain when choosing your pact. Beyond the effort paradox, two well-established cognitive biases cause us to gravitate toward the most ambitious version of a project. The overconfidence effect, in tandem with the planning fallacy—in which we consistently underestimate the time, resources,
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replaces one kind of conformity with another.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Love this phrasing because it captures the way I've been thinking. Context - with the Jigsaw community for creative entrepreneurs, they spoke about it being for creatives / unconventional folks and like-minded peeps venturing out. What I found there was they meant more "traditionally creative - like design, interiors, marketing, architecture" rather than really about the mindset. They felt quite rigid to me in many ways - and it did feel like replacing one form of doing what you are told to another. I did not feel like people around thought like me or even wanted things the same way - felt quite conforming in this sense.
ambition isn’t broken. It is still what it has always been: the innate human desire for growth, a desire that is both universal and highly personal. People aren’t broken, either. They still crave creativity and connection. It’s the way we set goals that’s broken.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Psychologists often say that our freedom lies within the gap between stimulus and response.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom wrote about awakening experiences—events that shake us from default routines, crack our defensive barriers, and open new possibilities. Some of them can be major, such as the loss of a loved one, divorce, war, and illness. Others can be referred to as “a sort of petite existential shock therapy”—sobering thoughts
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When we consider our professional future, we seek a legible story, one that provides the appearance of stability, with a cohesive narrative and clear steps to success. If everything goes well, we get hired to provide answers based on our expertise—not questions based on our curiosity. We begin caring about what people think of us and we project an
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before you can relearn to experiment and turn life into the giant playground it ought to be, you need first to unlearn your cognitive scripts.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
The Greeks valued this qualitative view deeply, so much so that they had a second word for time: Kairos. Kairos expresses the quality, not the quantity, of time. It recognizes that each moment is unique, with a unique purpose, rather than a fixed unit to be mechanically allocated. Sometimes the Greeks used the word Kairos even more specifically, as
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