from outcome to process
Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Sometimes the best way to achieve something great is to stop trying to achieve a particular great thing. In other words, greatness is possible if you are willing to stop demanding what that greatness should be.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.
David Chapman • Tweet
Embed future in today. Action bias in here and now. And weave time to unleash compounding. Small steady steps in right direction
This is how to tell a success story: Rather than telling a story of your full and complete accomplishment, tell the story of a small part of the success. Tell about a small step. Feel free to allude to the better days that may lie ahead, but don’t try to tell everything. Small steps only.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Often, the key to succeeding at something big is to break it into its tiniest pieces and focus on how to succeed at just one piece.
Tim Urban • How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 2
To arrive somewhere remarkable we must be willing to hold many paths open without knowing where they might lead.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And wisdom to know the difference
Reframing “work” as a process of embodied intention not only inverts the relationship between process and output (and makes us question why that relationship ever seemed hierarchical in the first place) but also forces us to prioritize the things that make process more enjoyable, true, delightful and meaningful.