feature or a bug?
how advantages can be disadvantages and strengths can be weaknesses
feature or a bug?
From George Mack newsletter
The ease of having an ambition is that it can be explained to others; the very disease of ambition is that it can be so easily explained to others. DAVID WHYTE
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
Prof. Feynmanx.comI developed the governing impression that our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto Book 2)
human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
-Jack Kornfeld
The human mind is a remarkable contraption, great at keeping us psychologically buoyant in periods of chaos and allowing us to pay the price later, once the storm has settled.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Someone dumber and lazier than you is making 10x the money because they are too dumb to doubt themselves.” - Kyle Harrison via Trevor McKendrick newsletter
Our cognitive apparatus is designed, at least in part, to sustain us in the long term rather than balm us in the near term.