Some ideas to keep coming often
Double Thank You moment : How many times have you paid $1 for a cup of coffee and after the clerk said, "Thank you," you responded, "Thank you"? There's a wealth of economics wisdom in the weird double thank-you moment. Why does it happen? Because you want the coffee more than the buck, and the store wants the buck more than the coffee. Both of you
... See more“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." - Pascal…but …..The reason has its heart of which the heart feels nothing…
Depressive Realism : Depressed people have a more accurate view of the world because they’re more realistic about how risky and fragile life is. The opposite of “blissfully unaware.”
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Nuance matter.
…the more time we spend in the tower’s mirror world of abstractions and the higher we climb, the more important it is that we hold on to a fistful of mud.
We create problems for ourselves by using static language (e.g. judgements) to capture a reality that is dynamic & ever changing — by mixing observations and evaluations
The solution to a mediocre life is focus.
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Your mind is for getting ideas not holding ideas