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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Most people want to be fit, most people aren’t.
Most people want to build a successful business, most people won’t.
Most people want to be the best version of themselves, most people aren’t.
Most people have dreams they want to fulfill, most people won’t.
Everyone wants to quit something, build something, be something, do something. Most people won
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corita.orgThe 14 tips:
- Research to prove or disprove hypotheses, vs trying to boil the ocean by seeing what’s out there.
- If doing stakeholder interviews, at the end of the day discuss the key themes, write them down, order them and use this as your skeleton.
- Don’t waste time transcribing. Use tools like Fireflies AI or Otter.AI. They get you 80% there.
- Identify
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There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.