Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
a ‘slow hunch’ – the anti-‘lightbulb moment,’ the idea that comes into focus over decades, not seconds.
Steven Johnson • How We Got to Now
“autotelic personality,” or the ability to create flow experiences even in the most barren environment—an almost inhumane workplace, a weed-infested urban neighborhood.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
Too often people assume that you should only focus on one thing in your life, period. But that’s not what this strategy is about. It’s about being smart about what you pursue. Yes, you can achieve a lot of things…But just not at the same time.
You can’t build a career, get in shape, compete in marathons, write a book, invest in a business, get kids,... See more
You can’t build a career, get in shape, compete in marathons, write a book, invest in a business, get kids,... See more
The very concept of a limit implies that you can’t do everything you want—so we must think of smarter ways to work. Let’s be honest: Many of us don’t make this kind of adjustment until we are required to. Limits force us to rethink how we are working and push us to new heights of creativity.
Ed Catmull • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
A great insight by Lisa Feldman Barrett: When someone expresses anxiety, the first thing you should do is ask: do you want empathy or do you want a solution?
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Luck plays such a big role in the world. But it’s hard to talk about. If I say you got lucky, I look jealous. If I tell myself that I got lucky, I feel diminished.
Collaborative Fund • Lucky vs. Repeatable
In Adam Grant’s latest book Hidden Potential, he discusses the difference between burnout and boreout:
Burnout = emotional exhaustion that accumulates when you’re overloaded
Boreout = emotional deadening that accumulates when you’re understimulated
Burnout = emotional exhaustion that accumulates when you’re overloaded
Boreout = emotional deadening that accumulates when you’re understimulated
areas. I might think that my artistic skills are fixed but that my intelligence can be developed. Or that my personality is fixed, but my creativity can be developed. We’ve found that whatever mindset people have in a particular area will guide them in that area.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
young workers who regularly quit their jobs and ended up better for it. “People who switch jobs more frequently early in their careers tend to have higher wages and incomes in their prime-working years,” one of the co-authors, the economics professor Henry Siu, told me. “Job-hopping is actually correlated with higher incomes, because people have
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