playing in decades
Full-time authors, for example, don’t actually type for 40 hours per week because they’d have little to say if they did. Instead, they spend most of their time collecting experiences. By the time they sit down to write, they’ve already experienced what they plan to write about, even if they aren’t entirely sure about what they’re going to say. By s
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This is why maybe I can’t write right now. I have not much to say? I’m collecting experiences. But that’s not true because I haven’t really processed everything before what I’m experiencing now. I really enjoy the habit of writing in the morning. That should continue to be my creative hour
For example, if you want to make a lot of money, you need to admit that. If you want to be famous, you need to pursue that. If you want freedom and no responsibilities, or want to learn as much as possible, or whatever else, you need to realize it and embrace it. Whatever you decide, you need to optimize for that goal, and be willing to let go of t
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Admit that i want freedom and to do meaningful work that fires me up
Advice to a young engineer considering moving to San Francisco: “Do you want to leave your friends behind? Or be the one left behind?”
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Powerful reframe
This is why I say it takes decades—I’m not saying it takes decades to execute, but the better part of a decade may be figuring out what you can uniquely provide. [10]
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
A decade of work
While other people have one idea that they think might work, you will have thousands you can prove didn’t work, and one you couldn’t make fail.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Interesting. The texture of creativity is the same. There will be something that means more than others forms.
#visualmetaphor
Therefore, when a man takes pride in being a worker or for having a “job” for the purpose of receiving a paycheck, he is a beggar. He may earn a six figure salary. But he remains a beggar. Many will protest this statement. They will say that it is honorable to provide for one’s family. They will say that having a job in order to support the family
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I see this but also relate that we have created a family and home that needs care and maintenance
If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Distraction & passion
Let the deadline of death drive you. Create until your last breath. Let your last spark of life go into your work. Die empty, so death takes only a corpse.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Powerful. Die empty. Not full of what ifs.
The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations, and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single player. Perhaps one reason why yoga and meditation are hard to sustain is they have no
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Single player games