How To Think, Feel, Do
"If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution."
- Albert Einstein
Another thing to consider when trying to become perceptive is that the way you learn in school—where the material is sequenced in a curriculum so that you are first exposed to simple examples and later to more complex ones—tends to make you less perceptive.
Henrik Karlsson • Becoming Perceptive
Life ethic > Work ethic
So from this, we have our first formula for creating self-discipline. One, create standards for your behavior and two, follow through with them no matter what. Through this, you're building respect for the sanctity of your own commands and you're building respect up for yourself by following through with what you said you'd do.
Kiana Docherty • I Found the Formula for Self-Discipline
There is no wrong decision, you just get a different/new experience.
Fear of a decision is fear of getting an outcome.
Worry Is Sin
The Manifesto
Worry is sin. Worry is blasphemy. It is doubt against reality, against creation. Each anxious thought spits in GOD's face. Your fear is faithlessness. A cancer of the soul that spreads until it paralyzes and kills. Worry is to wage war against the divine order. Against what must be. Every second spent in anxiety is a sin. B
... See moreTo return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because t... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If you are looking for a friend in a crowd, faces become salient to you, faces that would have otherwise passed you by. If you are making videos, you will notice patterns in the videos you watch. If you’re not, you can watch a thousand videos and have them pass through your head clean
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