Simple happiness
Adam Mastroianni • Face It: You're a Crazy Person
Sahil Bloom • The Most Powerful Life Hacks I've Found
People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It’s not. It’s about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind.
When the cost of mistakes is high, we’re paralyzed with fear. When the cost of mistakes is low, we can move fast and adapt.
Make mistakes cheap, not rare.
-Shane Parrish
my bold; from Brain Food #641
... See moreOnce I thought that [writing this book] would be impossible. It was a skyscraper, massive and complete and unbearably far off. It taunted me from the horizon. But do we ever look at such buildings and assume they sprung up overnight? No. We’ve seen the traffic congestion that attends them. The skeleton of beams and girders. The swarm of builders
Replace brackets with your own project
from acknowledgements in Morning Star
Being wrong isn’t something to fear but rather something to expect.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #629
How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe that’s just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be. It takes more to hope than to remember.
-Darrow
Wish for things in the future, not the past
my bold; from Pierce Brown’s Morning Star pg. 305
Have the courage to be disliked
Adapted from The Knowledge Project #225