Curiosity
Nobody knows how to start anything
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
... See moreThe best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or
The easiest cure for Learning Syndrome is to adopt an attitude of just-in-time learning: start your project, using any step you can conceivably make, and then only learn whatever you need to take step number two.
How to Finally Make Something
Charlie Munger said learning is changing your behavior.
One of the more humbling parts of adulthood is realizing how many things belong on a list I could title:
"Things I know but haven't learned"
Jackson Dahlx.comInstead of asking yourself what you are passionate about, try using the following 4 territories to guide your career design decisions. As you answer these questions, you might start to see areas of overlap—these are the most promising directions to go in!
To make it simple, let’s call these territories The Four Cs. They are Curiosity, Creative... See more
To make it simple, let’s call these territories The Four Cs. They are Curiosity, Creative... See more
Avoiding the passion trap
Learning is downstream of doing. The order should rarely be reversed. Most real knowledge, knowledge worth attaining, lives in the hands . It must be cultivated gradually, like a garden. Really, it must be grown. Most real knowledge is the result of doing something deliberately for a long time and steadily making small improvements. It requires a... See more
Do what you can't
“I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynman
Matter
This is why I like substack
> A year after college graduation, my friend Sebin introduced me to an exercise that changed how I thought about direction-finding. She handed me a piece of paper and asked me to mind-map everything I actually thought about during a typical week, not what I thought I should be thinking... See more
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