Some ideas to keep coming often
- Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.” - Deborah Levy
We must expect to misunderstand. We must expect to be misunderstood. For sanity we must try to minimise misunderstanding.
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Buridan’s Ass : A thirsty donkey is placed exactly midway between two pails of water. It dies because it can’t make a rational decision about which one to choose. A form of decision paralysis.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
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.
‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung
Luxury Paradox : The more expensive something is the less likely you are to use it, so the relationship between price and utility is an inverted U. Ferraris sit in garages; Hondas get driven.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Pareto Principle : The majority of outcomes are driven by a minority of events.