Sanctuary
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Sanctuary
Here’s the sad truth: people don't read anymore.
High on dopamine, they hop, skim, and jump from one stimulating snack to the next.
So make it bite-sized or be ignored. If it takes more than a few choice words to articulate your unique value, you'll become a casualty of attention warfare.
High on dopamine, they hop, skim, and jump from one stimulating snack to the next.
So make it bite-sized or be ignored. If it takes more than a few choice words to articulate your unique value, you'll become a casualty of attention warfare.
Tom White • Why Less Is More When Pitching Yourself
When stuck
What is my one top priority now?
How can I begin without waiting for anything?
What advice would I love to hear from an all-knowing sage?
What am I doing that’s actually a distraction?
Instead of avoiding mistakes, how can I make more to learn faster?
Who can help?
What is my one top priority now?
How can I begin without waiting for anything?
What advice would I love to hear from an all-knowing sage?
What am I doing that’s actually a distraction?
Instead of avoiding mistakes, how can I make more to learn faster?
Who can help?
When changing direction
When I was at my happiest, what was I doing?
What have I strongly wanted for the longest time?
What’s the opposite of what I usually do?
Which of my old beliefs are not serving me?
Forget me. What would be most helpful for others?
When I was at my happiest, what was I doing?
What have I strongly wanted for the longest time?
What’s the opposite of what I usually do?
Which of my old beliefs are not serving me?
Forget me. What would be most helpful for others?
4. Do nothing
Doing nothing is how to live.
“Stop all the thinking and doing. Be still and silent. No actions and no reactions. No judgments and no conclusions. No craving and no fixing.”
“Change your need to change things. In your most peaceful moments, your mind is quiet. You’re not thinking you should be doing anything else. When everything feels p... See more
Doing nothing is how to live.
“Stop all the thinking and doing. Be still and silent. No actions and no reactions. No judgments and no conclusions. No craving and no fixing.”
“Change your need to change things. In your most peaceful moments, your mind is quiet. You’re not thinking you should be doing anything else. When everything feels p... See more
Lingering in minds requires a new sort of Madison Avenue alchemy—compressing high-voltage ideas into phrases so charged that they sear into neural pathways.
Tom White • Why Less Is More When Pitching Yourself
This is the great struggle of modern work: distillation. The untrained eye dismisses it as crude minimalism, but true virtuosos recognize its complexity. Crafting crystalline simplicity is grueling, mind-bending work—the rarified art of smelting ideas into dense, polished gemstones.
Tom White • Why Less Is More When Pitching Yourself
9. Let randomness rule
Letting randomness rule is how to live.
“Choose a life where you choose nothing. Let the random generator decide what you do, where you go, and who you meet.”
“Eventually, you’ll look, act, and socialize very differently than your previous self. You won’t define yourself by these things anymore, since you didn’t choose them.”
“Ra... See more
Letting randomness rule is how to live.
“Choose a life where you choose nothing. Let the random generator decide what you do, where you go, and who you meet.”
“Eventually, you’ll look, act, and socialize very differently than your previous self. You won’t define yourself by these things anymore, since you didn’t choose them.”
“Ra... See more
To make peace with what’s out of your control
What happens if I ignore it and do nothing?
Should I learn a lesson from this, or just move on?
How can I blame no one, and see this as nobody’s fault?
How can I be OK no matter what happens?
What happens if I ignore it and do nothing?
Should I learn a lesson from this, or just move on?
How can I blame no one, and see this as nobody’s fault?
How can I be OK no matter what happens?
When something goes wrong
What’s great about this?
How can I use this to my advantage?
Does this change the goal, or the path, or nothing?
How can I reduce the downsides?
What’s great about this?
How can I use this to my advantage?
Does this change the goal, or the path, or nothing?
How can I reduce the downsides?