Worm School, week one
Create Something Small
James Clear • Smart People Should Create Things
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embrace radical incrementalism. The psychology professor Robert Boice spent his career studying the writing habits of his fellow academics, reaching the conclusion that the most productive and successful among them generally made writing a smaller part of their daily routine than the others, so that it was much more feasible to keep going with it d
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
When assigned a long-term project, finish some amount of work toward its completion that very same day.
Cal Newport • How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
To attempt to provide some minimum-viable-scaffolding for productivity, so you can turn off the feed and get back to work, here it is in one sentence:
Do the most important thing for a few high-energy hours, with minimal interruptions, every day.
Nat Eliason • Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft
- What is the smallest meaningful change I can make? Make it small. Small is achievable. For now, this means getting started on at least two of the above four steps before moving on. The rest and best is yet to come.
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Embrace radical incrementalism: People who work a little bit every day tend to cultivate the patience it takes to get good. These people also quit their day’s work when it’s finished: they identify what their chunk of time or task is per day, they do that and only that, and save more for tomorrow.
Austin Kleon • The principles of patience
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If you don’t have the opportunity to “do great things”, focus on consistently achieving small wins. These small things in fact do not need to be done in a great way, but a good way, repeatably. In fact, I would advise not to focus on perfection, as it is often the enemy of the successful.
Steph Smith • How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably
There are a lot of things I want to do. I want to create and build and make and write.
And then, of course, there are other things that I just have to do, like bookkeeping and responding to emails.
Sometimes, it all gets to be too much. There are too many things to do! I need to figure out where to start! I get paralyzed by the sheer enormity of it a... See more
And then, of course, there are other things that I just have to do, like bookkeeping and responding to emails.
Sometimes, it all gets to be too much. There are too many things to do! I need to figure out where to start! I get paralyzed by the sheer enormity of it a... See more
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