Work and productivity

From James Clear's 3-2-1: Why small things matter, reframing failure, and how to cherish life

"Life rewards action, not intelligence.
Many brilliant people talk themselves out of getting started, and being smart doesn't help very much without the courage to act.
You can't win if you're not in the game."

The key is understanding how your unique brain works in this new landscape and designing learning strategies that work with your natural patterns while leveraging the tools available to you.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Learning How to Learn

Sometimes the process of thinking looks like needless chaos from the outside

But thats what creatives should be doing.

Banging on random objects just to see what it might shake out.

Creatives need to make a mess in order to arrive at clarity.

Memorizing facts is becoming less important than knowing how to ask the right questions and evaluate AI-generated responses. Yet this same technology that can accelerate learning also risks creating dependency if we don’t learn to leverage it strategically.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Learning How to Learn

The opposite of communion is also useful to me. When I am with others, when I read books, when I look at Twitter—I feel like a dam filling with water, with potential energy. But it is usually not until I spend a long time alone in my head that it turns into kinetic energy.

Henrik Karlsson • On Having More Interesting Ideas

“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.” — Igor Stravinsky, Composer, Pianist, and Conductor.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Parkinson’s law: how constraints can create freedom

In simple terms, Parkinson’s Law means that if you take a 2-hour task and allocate 4 hours to get it done, you will end up spending 4 hours working on the task. You may do more research, procrastinate, overthink your approach—the resulting work may be the same, but you will have ended up spending twice as much time as necessary on the task.

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