psychology
short-term emotion, which can be an unreliable adviser. When people share the worst decisions they’ve made in life, they are often recalling choices made in the grip of visceral emotion: anger, lust, anxiety, greed.
fastcompany.com • The 10/10/10 Rule for Tough Decisions
The modern understanding of a career in most knowledge work fields involves a non-trivial amount of sacrifice. You are expected to pay your dues, work your way up, and ride out the rough patches. Endurance is key. If you stick it out long enough, there’s something great on the other side — primarily security. Even in jobs where management is less
... See moreCharlie Warzel • What if People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
Makers vs Manager’s Schedule — “When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster.” (related: Deep Work)
medium.com • Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful – Medium
Natural Selection — “The differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in heritable traits of a population over time.”
medium.com • Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful – Medium
“Radical candor is humble, it’s helpful, it’s immediate, it’s in person — in private if it’s criticism and in public if it’s praise — and it doesn’t personalize.”
firstround.com • Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss
I can give you examples and processes, but if you don’t have the ability to understand where you are and who you are, those won’t serve you much.
The path will be confusing.
It’s not supposed to make sense just yet.
When you’re doing something new, you aren’t supposed to be anything other than lost because you’re flailing in the middle of the ocean
... See moreDan Koe • How to Unf*ck Your Life
The good man of the reasonable center, in Galloway’s view, adheres to a code indistinguishable from that of the Boy Scouts: mental and physical fitness, emotional resilience, hard work, financial prudence, caring for others. Few could object to any of this. But the person it describes—a kind and conscientious sort, who aspires to make a decent
... See moreJessica Winter • What Did Men Do to Deserve This? | the New Yorker
a belief in oneness was more strongly related to feeling connected with distant people and aspects of the natural world than with people with whom one is close !
Scott Barry Kaufman • What Would Happen if Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs — “Maslow used the terms ‘physiological’, ‘safety’, ‘belongingness’ and ‘love’, ‘esteem’, ‘self-actualization’, and ‘self-transcendence’ to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through… [though there is] little evidence for the ranking of needs that Maslow described or for the existence of a
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