commitment
What accounts for this hesitation? Why do we love committers but act like browsers? I think it’s because of three fears. First, we have a fear of regret: we worry that if we commit to something, we will later regret having not committed to something else. Second, we have a fear of association: we think that if we commit to something, we will be... See more
Pete Davis • Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
It's easy to end up average: you are interested in everything, get distracted by everything, never commit to anything, and the years pass, and you do a lot of things, but never stick to anything long enough to get rewarded.
Orange Book 🍊📖x.comOn our run I tell J: the unhealthy version of myself used to abandon things just because they got painful or inconvenient. The healthy part of me finds joyfulness in persisting in something for a very long time. In hindsight it sounds really obvious but it genuinely eluded me for a really long time: the mark of overall healthiness in spirit is... See more
Nix 🕊 • what's a good commitment?
It was a classic “straddled strategy” of attempting to invest in everything at once. The result was that while I was not entirely failing in any pursuit I was not entirely succeeding at any either. I soon began to wonder just what was so great about all these open options.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
