Some ideas to keep coming often
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
Brian Eno
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
Apophenia : A tendency to perceive correlations between unrelated things, because your mind can only deal with tiny sample sizes and assuming things are correlated creates easy/comforting explanations of how the world works.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
The Never-Ending Now - The structure of our social media feeds blinds us to history, as it causes us to live in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption. The structure of the Internet pulls people away from age-old wisdom
Pareto Principle : The majority of outcomes are driven by a minority of events.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
- Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The world may makes sense at times and at times it can be confusing. When it is confusing, your model of the world is wrong or you lack some frames. So, things that don’t make sense are a learning opportunity. Big opportunities won’t make sense until it’s too late to profit from them.
Non-linear outcomes could come if one can identify signal over noise but also weak signal over strong signal.
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”