reverse thinking
It starts with flipping the script on…
reverse thinking
During these early periods, late bloomers try and then quit so many jobs that the people around them might conclude that they lack resilience. But these are exactly the years when the late bloomers are developing what psychologists call “diversive curiosity”—the ability to wander into a broad range of interests in a manner that seems to have no... See more
David Brooks • You Might Be a Late Bloomer
"So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like a failure in the short term."
Great originals are great procrastinators, but they don’t skip planning altogether. They procrastinate strategically, making gradual progress by testing and refining different possibilities.
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“procrastinate strategically”
It starts with flipping the script on “pay myself first” — not with my money, but with my most irreplaceable asset, my time.
Why I pay myself first—with my time.
It’s the novelty, or the imagination that it is novel (even inversion isn’t that novel when we study it), that tends to cause the chaos. Inversion helps you explore that supposed novelty to uncover, sometimes very old, solutions.
Just Don't Be Stupid
false novelty
who I am not
Fantasy-work is your responsibility. If you don’t advocate for your own fantasy you will be living inside someone else’s.