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You don’t need status or expertise to start writing. In fact, beginners often create the most helpful content:
• While learning Ruby on Rails programming, I couldn’t get it installed despite following expert tutorials. The solution came from a fellow beginner’s blog who explained a “basic” configuration step the experts had skipped.
nathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
reliance on intuition is only in part a personality trait. Merely reminding people of a time when they had power increases their apparent trust in their own intuition.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Unfortunately, the band he was kicked out of was Metallica, which has sold over 180 million albums worldwide. Metallica is considered by many to be one of the greatest rock bands of all time. And because of this, in a rare intimate interview in 2003, a tearful Mustaine admitted that he couldn’t help but still consider himself a failure. Despite all
... See moreMark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
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Furthermore, patients whose colostomy has been reversed remember their time in this condition as awful, and they would give up even more of their remaining life not to have to return to it. Here it appears that the remembering self is subject to a massive focusing illusion about the life that the experiencing self endures quite comfortably.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Dopamine specializes in driving all the various manifestations of desire, from our sexual appetites to our quest for knowledge.
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript gray t-shirt and jeans when we talked. “From the beginning, we viewed those as the same thing. Each object gets better with more participation, and so does MSCHF. Scale is not the goal. Scale is a tool
... See moreEvan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.’
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
For the first time in evolutionary history, one individual could give any of a variety of resources without actually giving them away. The result was the lowering of the natural inhibitions against transactions that must be begun by one person’s providing personal resources to another. Sophisticated and coordinated systems of aid, gift giving,
... See moreRobert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Mindfulness, in the sense of constant presence of mind, the attentiveness and hereness that is so essential for real, active observation of the world. Motivation, in the sense of active engagement and desire.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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