implementing change
Try it. Go around your day, narrating all of your choices to yourself. With everything you do, consciously say, in your head: “I am choosing to do this, because it’s the best course of action according to all the information I have available.” See if it feels true. It might — perhaps this exercise will reinforce your conviction. But you might also... See more
In praise of quitting
Learn to love the moat of low status
Cate Hall • How to Be More Agentic
It’s called a moat both because you can’t just leap to the other side and because it gives anyone who can cross it a real advantage.
Cate Hall • How to Be More Agentic
If you want new skittles (reality), you have to update your assembly line (your personality or beliefs), and source new ingredients (different friends, new job, dump girlfriend,
Parakeet • Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty Monetization
Lorna K. Bailey
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Fear of being temporarily low in social status stops human beings from living richer lives to an unbelievable degree.
Cate Hall • Learn to Love the Moat of Low Status
Cringe fields are where our biggest self-improvement gains are likely to come from, because they point to parts of the self we haven't allowed to develop — there's only so much you can continue to squeeze out of your core strengths, but you can get noob gains from focusing on your core fears. This means that existential cringe is actually a signal
... See moreCate Hall • Crossing the Cringe Minefield
