Motivational
Get up and do something!
Motivational
We avoid doing simple things that work because they don’t make us look smart.
Smart people feel stupid doing simple things, so we invent complicated alternatives that accomplish less but feel more intellectually satisfying.
Meanwhile, the people who dominate their fields are doing embarrassingly basic things, but they do them better than everyone... See more
Smart people feel stupid doing simple things, so we invent complicated alternatives that accomplish less but feel more intellectually satisfying.
Meanwhile, the people who dominate their fields are doing embarrassingly basic things, but they do them better than everyone... See more
Farnam Street • Someone People Want to Help
Most complexity is unnecessary, but we manage it instead of removing it because deletion requires courage that addition doesn’t.
Farnam Street • Someone People Want to Help
Your capacity for excellence is inversely proportional to the number of your commitments.
Different Resolutions
“Working on a problem reduces the fear of it.
It’s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it—even if progress is imperfect and slow.
Action relieves anxiety.”
It’s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it—even if progress is imperfect and slow.
Action relieves anxiety.”
3-2-1: On true wealth, the antidote to anxiety, and how to love someone as they change
“There is an enormous difference between working hard on something that is a grind and working hard on something that comes easily to you.
Exceptional results almost exclusively happen when you work hard on an area where you have some natural aptitude. Play to your strengths.”
Exceptional results almost exclusively happen when you work hard on an area where you have some natural aptitude. Play to your strengths.”
“A simple rule for life that rarely fails:
Optimize for enthusiasm. Make as many choices as you can that leave you feeling energetic and interested. Pay attention to when you have the urge to pursue or participate in something and do more of it.”
Optimize for enthusiasm. Make as many choices as you can that leave you feeling energetic and interested. Pay attention to when you have the urge to pursue or participate in something and do more of it.”
The entire self-help industry in one sentence: Do what makes mornings exciting and nights peaceful.
Will this make me excited to wake up? Will this let me sleep in peace?
Everything that fails both tests is noise.
Will this make me excited to wake up? Will this let me sleep in peace?
Everything that fails both tests is noise.