psychology
when you understand what stage you’re in and the exact “conditions” you need to make progress, what seems impossible now becomes inevitable.
Your mind literally reconstructs how it processes reality.
Dan Koe • How to Unf*ck Your Life
Parkinson’s Law — “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
medium.com • Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful – Medium
Meaning, when you understand what stage you’re in and the exact “conditions” you need to make progress, what seems impossible now becomes inevitable.
Your mind literally reconstructs how it processes reality.
Dan Koe • How to Unf*ck Your Life
For the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.
The Economist • Why Do We Work So Hard?
Marriage ends up as a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully avoided investigating.
Alain De Botton • Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
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
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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
eliminate the opposing forces. Simplify your life, learn how to say no, change your environment, reduce the number of responsibilities that you take on, and otherwise eliminate the forces that are holding you back.
James Clear • Newton's Laws of Getting Stuff Done
Third rule of productivity
For those of you keeping track at home, Kobe Bryant started his conditioning work around 4:30am, continued to run and sprint until 6am, lifted weights from 6am to 7am, and finally proceeded to make 800 jump shots between 7am and 11am.
Oh yeah, and then Team USA had practice.
It's obvious that Kobe is getting his 10,000 hours in, but there is another
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