shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
sari and
shifting perspectives
An embarrassingly simple reframe has been pretty profound for me: This is really hard, I must be doing something wrong to This is really hard, I must be doing something hard
H/t ashley mayer
Accomplishments just feel like inevitabilities that you have to work really hard for.
I do not require ideal conditions to do exceptional work
Ryan Mather • Tweet
Love this from Joshua Kushner’s interview on Patrick O’Shaughnessy‘s Invest like the Best:
Patrick: How do you balance or reconcile participating in a $2b round for stripe with a 2m check into a seed company?
Joshua: They are equally concentrated - not in magnitude of capital but in... See more
One of my heuristics for growth is to seek out the magicians, and find the magic. Often without noticing, your progress in aspects of life or all of it unconsciously becomes linear. You made a certain amount of money last year, so you aim to make some ‘reasonable’ proportion more this year. But you are largely using the same tools to get 2x as you... See more
autotranslucence • Becoming a magician
“Rough layouts sell the idea better than polished ones. If you show a highly polished computer layout, the client will focus on the execution not the idea. Show a scribble. Explain it. Talk through it. Involve your client. Let them use their imagination.”