How To Enjoy The Process
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How To Enjoy The Process
HOW TO LEARN ANYTHING*1. Deconstruct the skill: - decide exactly what you want to be able to do when you're done, and then look into the skill and break it down into smaller pieces.
2. Learn enough to self correct: - learn just enough that you can actually practice and self correct or self edit as you practice.
3. Remove barriers to practice: -... See more
TEDx Talks • The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU
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When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important... See more
David Epstein • "Discipline Is Destiny"
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.
brianna wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
s you invest in some skills, but not others, you get a greater return from activities where you have considerable training. Thus, your opportunity cost for learning new things increases. Therefore, a failure to learn new things is perfectly rational, even if it can result in inflexibility as we get older.
One way this manifests is the time horizon... See more
One way this manifests is the time horizon... See more
Scott H Young • Why Do People (Usually) Learn Less as They Get Older? - Scott H Young
Learning isn’t linear. How do you continue to enjoy the process as you get older?
And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Randy Komisar • The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
The only times I can really remember crying, aside from deaths, is when I’ve had to move from one thing to the next: at middle school graduation, at high school graduation, at college graduation, moving from my first NYC apartment to my second.
The funny thing, in retrospect, is that each thing I cried about moving on to became a thing I cried... See more
The funny thing, in retrospect, is that each thing I cried about moving on to became a thing I cried... See more
Packy McCormick • Pace Yourself
Most of my field (along with most of our social and ethical systems and institutions) is focused on “raising the floor” of human functioning: lifting more people out of depression, anxiety, and trauma, and up to the mean level of wellbeing, resilience, self-efficacy, or whatever outcomes we’re trying to optimize. The methods and metrics used by the... See more
Gena Gorlin • The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious
I wish when I was at my previous startups I had focused more on building and less on winning. Sure, I may not have done exactly what I had thought I wanted, but finding ways to love the process would’ve allowed for better outcomes anyway. What we want is such an abstract idea, built on a foundation of shifting sand, that it is pointless to try to... See more