Thought provoking
Are you better off ordering your favorite food off a menu or something you have never had? Rozin had suggested to me it might depend on where you want your pleasure to occur: before, during, or after the meal. “The anticipated pleasure is greater if it’s your favorite food. You’ve had it, you’re familiar with it, you know what it’s like. The experi
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The antidote is figuring out what you care about, what you're good at, and what you like doing that can make the world a little bit better.
Then, really do that thing.
You can’t do everything, but there are a few things you can do really well. You have to
Alex Dobrenko • No one benefits from you scrolling and feeling sad
“What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?”
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Social media firms are] coming for every second of your life...And it's not because anyone is bad, it's not because anybody in this company has evil plans or is trying to do this, they're not even doing it consciously. Their entire model is growth. They’re coming for every second of your life. We used to colonize land. Then they realized [let’s go ... See more
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Came across this quote from David Chapman on why learning mental models is a good idea:
“Learn from fields very different from your own. They each have ways of thinking that can be useful at surprising times. Just learning to think like an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a philosopher will beneficially stretch your mind.”
“Learn from fields very different from your own. They each have ways of thinking that can be useful at surprising times. Just learning to think like an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a philosopher will beneficially stretch your mind.”
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Big problems are rarely solved with commensurately big solutions. Instead, they are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
“I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”
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To pursue bright spots is to ask the question “What’s working, and how can we do more of it?”
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
