SethG

The number of people reading a post or following an account is not a useful indicator of whether or not the ideas within are made up or not.

Act accordingly.

The simple life hack is to lower your expectations, regardless of what you’re entitled to. Create the conditions for the outcome you seek, but leave yourself room if it doesn’t arrive.

Lowering expectations is a way to ensure that tomorrow is even better than you hope it will be.

A question from ​The Strategy Deck​ by Seth Godin:

“Better waves make better surfers. Are you on the right beach?”

spend less time choosing and more time sorting.

take the situation quite seriously, but perhaps not focus so much on taking ourselves seriously.

Uncomfortable ideas

The ideas aren’t uncomfortable, we are.

You don’t have to like the weather to acknowledge that it’s raining.

A manipulator doesn’t care if the story is true. They’ve succeeded by taking advantage of our goodwill, our assumption that things asserted to be true usually are. A manipulator brings us a story that creates emotion–and causes action that the recipient ends up regretting. Manipulation isn’t resilient, because sooner or later, we discover that the ... See more

“Tell me about other strongly-held positions you’ve changed as the result of a discussion like this one...” is a direct way to start a conversation about the argument you’re proposing to have. “What sort of information would make it likely you could see this in a different way?”