shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
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shifting perspectives
“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday — unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.”
- Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon
Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus effe... See more
Abigail Desmond • Chaos and cause
It took 4.5 years and ~$1bn raised for OpenAI to launch GPT-3, which was their first PMF product.
That breaks every “rule” in the startup world, around mvp and being capital light pre-pmf.
Goes to show you that you have to define your own rules to get outsized success.
immadtwitter.comStress happens when something you care about is at stake. It's not a sign to run away - it's a sign to step forward.
Kelly McGonigal • The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and H…
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few.
And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred.
An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of companies.
And it doesn’t matter how many students are in the class, the teacher i
... See moreSeth Godin • The natural size
The obsession with statistical norms has turned psychology into a system for pathologizing difference. Any deviation from statistical norms is labeled a "disorder." Instead of understanding the full spectrum of human experience, we rush to correct it.
This is precisely what Jung fought against.3 He saw this for what it was: not science, but scienti... See more
This is precisely what Jung fought against.3 He saw this for what it was: not science, but scienti... See more
Laura London • In Defense of Carl Jung: Beyond Scientific Dogma
I think “accomplishments” are traps. Accomplishments, by their very definition, exist only in the past or future—which are not even real things.
