Thought provoking
You wrote that the brain evolved to seek out the “edge of informational chaos” — a place where our predictive models begin to break down, and in those uncertain zones, we actually have much to learn.
Oshan Jarow • Your mind needs chaos
The philosopher Kierkegaard wrote 150 years ago, and he was one of the first psychological philosophers who really wrote about anxiety. He regarded himself rather useless, all things considered. He wrote a section in one of his books about all the industrialists who were operating in Europe at that time, trying in every possible way to make life... See more
A More Reliable And Meaningful Aim Than Happiness
because of their propensity to hop domains, generalists tend to possess a wide set of shallow skills. But measuring them against their rudimentary coding abilities or their working knowledge of French baking technique misses their true advantage: the ability to adapt to new situations, and the desire to do so.
Why Generalists Own the Future
Speech-based personality prediction using deep learning with acoustic and linguistic embeddings - Scientific Reports
Martin Lukacnature.comThere’s a piece of advice I still struggle with, but that I’m more and more convinced lies at the heart of meaningful productivity, successful creative work, and a more vibrant life in general. That advice is: act fast. Move quickly. When you get a good idea, make it your default policy to put it into practice as soon as you reasonably can.
The Imperfectionist: Act fast
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"When dreaming, imagine success.
When preparing, imagine failure.
When acting, imagine success."
"When dreaming, imagine success.
When preparing, imagine failure.
When acting, imagine success."
3-2-1: How to learn faster, what you put into the world, and the value of numerous attempts
You need a very strong container to hold the contents and contradictions that arrive later in life. You ironically need a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego.
Richard Rohr • Falling Upward
(“What an astonishing thing a book is,” said Carl Sagan. “It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside... See more