Some ideas to keep coming often
The solution to a mediocre life is focus.
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
Cobra Effect: Attempting to solve a problem makes that problem worse. Comes from an Indian story about a city infested with snakes offering a bounty for every dead cobra, which caused entrepreneurs to start breeding cobras for slaughter.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
We map the world, ourselves included
Map is not the Territory
The map is not all the Territory - it is bound to leave out things on Territory
Maps are self reflexive - ie map maker may pretend to transcend the map but he is affecting the map making
Pareto Principle : The majority of outcomes are driven by a minority of events.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
Kiss all frog and expand surface area of Serendipity
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.