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If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar
The Curiosity Conflict: The Struggle to Shift From Exploration to Exploitation
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Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.
Blackbird Spyplane • This life gives you nothing
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value. I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists.’ The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest).
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While talking to a friend earlier this week, I realized that many of my best projects started out as what seemed like a distraction from more pressing work – ignoring my email inbox to read an interesting thread on Twitter or abandonning a work presentation for an hour to grab a coffee with a colleague.
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Superhuman
Cringe tolerance: The psychological ability to absorb embarrassment, a key trait separating creators from critics.
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There's a psychological barrier that divides the world into two distinct camps. Those who build things, and those who only critique them. This barrier has nothing to do with technical skill, intelligence, or even opportunity. It's the ability to absorb embarrassment. It's what we might call cringe tolerance.
Every successful entrepreneur,
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Cultivating intellectual humility by embracing criticism, finding joy in being wrong, and accelerating learning through public vulnerability
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And especially like now that I've gotten to like a larger scale, I have like a professional army of people telling me when I'm stupid.
It can be very frightening and it's very tempting to like retreat back into like making foolproof arguments and like filling in all the holes.
But that slows down the rate of learning and to just be willing to like,
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