Reminders for myself
Cultivating intellectual humility by embracing criticism, finding joy in being wrong, and accelerating learning through public vulnerability
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And especially like now that I've gotten to like a larger scale, I have like a professional army of people telling me when I'm stupid.
It can be very frightening and it's very tempting to like retreat back into like making foolproof arguments and like filling in all the holes.
But that slows down the rate of learning and to just be willing to like,
... See moreSam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more. I feel the same way about the pursuit of self-knowledge. If you’ve never looked within, you should probably start. But if you look within all the time, maybe... See more
max nuss • The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
Reading about Churchill reassured him that “even these gods have moments of insecurity.”
The Difference between God and Larry Ellison. God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison.
never was anything great achieved without danger.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Recently, one of my favorite questions to bug people with has been “What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?” If you don’t know the answer to that one, maybe you are doing something wrong or not doing enough. Or maybe you are (optimally?) not very ambitious?
Tyler Cowen • How I practice at what I do
Run your own race, as in: you set certain standards for yourself, and you focus on meeting them. When you meet them, you’re proud of yourself. When you don’t, you urge yourself to try harder. You don’t question your standards based on what anyone else is doing.
Carrie Moyer • Run Your Own Race - By Ava - Bookbear Express
So trust yourself fully. Trust that you are enough, and that you will always be enough, no matter what happens with your business. Trust that the truths you tell about yourself, your products, and your business will reach into the world, and resonate with the right people enough that they want to become customers. Trust that if you show up and play
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