Building Something
Building resilience isn’t pretty. It’s messy, hard, and it relies on learning how to tolerate frustration. Frustration tolerance is one of life’s most essential skills. The more we can tolerate frustration, the more we can learn, the more we can struggle, the more we can take on challenges, the more we can bounce back from failure. I talk to parents from all around the globe and they all want the same thing for their kids - they want their kids to be gritty and to take on challenges and to not give up when things get hard! And what I want parents to know that kids aren’t inherently born with the ability to do any of these things - but they can learn the skill that enables them to do all of them. That skill? Frustration tolerance. And if you’re thinking about how hard it is for us, as adults, to tolerate frustration… I’m right there with you. It’s more natural to look for a quick exit from our distress or a quick rescue from our struggle or a quick “quit” around our latest challenge. Here’s the good news: we can learn, frustration tolerance skills too! It’s never too late.
instagram.comFrustration Tolerance
We can all agree that discovering fire was pretty rad. The first humans to do it probably spent a lot of time learning which kind of kindling was best, how to nurse a spark into a flame, and what sorts of fires were best for cooking vs. heating. They must have painstakingly passed this knowledge from generation to generation, and youngsters had to ... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find and Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise Is a Coward and I Will Fight Them
The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.
Katherine Cross Rose
Here is something I wrote years ago about ~creative despair~ (I wrote it a couple years before I started Strange Planet) I am reposting this again - Creative despair is an emotion that I feel sometimes. It is not a place devoid of creativity. ❤️
instagram.comIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
– John Steinbeck
– John Steinbeck
Even now, when I’m lucky enough to be able to write exactly what I want to write with very few external constraints, writing often feels difficult for me in the same way it did when I was pumping out listicles — slow, sticky, clunky, painful, humiliating. I wonder if this, too, is part of the appeal of AI: it is so often humiliating to push up agai... See more
This isn't about lowering our ambitions - it's about elevating them. Trading the superficial for the substantial, rigidity for resilience, and the exhausting pursuit of "crushing it" for the satisfaction of building something meaningful. Because perhaps true success isn't measured in inbox zeros, but in creating a life that doesn't feel like someth... See more
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