Thought provoking
Melissa Florer-Bixler (@melissaf-b.bsky.social)
bsky.appAmbiguity is the enemy. Any successful change requires a translation of ambiguous goals into concrete behaviors. In short, to make a switch, you need to script the critical moves.
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
“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
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
How to like everything more - by Sasha Chapin How to like everything more
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comNo one benefits from you scrolling on your phone and feeling sad and then going to Starbucks.... See more
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
In studies like this one, psychologists have discovered that self-control is an exhaustible resource. It’s like doing bench presses at the gym. The first one is easy, when your muscles are fresh. But with each additional repetition, your muscles get more exhausted, until you can’t lift the bar again.