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by Barbara · updated 1mo ago
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- "Whether you are an adult or child, your first attempts will often seem unimportant or foolish.
- The open mic night at a nearly empty bar.
- The early blog posts that get ignored.
- The dance recital on a little stage.
Early attempts are easy to dismiss because they don't seem to amount to much. But you have to do the low stakes stuff to prepare for the ... See morefrom 3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
Barbara added 1mo ago
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”
(Csikszentmihalyi, 1990).
Barbara added 2mo ago
Ever throw a rock into a rolling ocean full of waves? Pretty uneventful.
But have you ever dropped a tiny pebble into a lake that's as still as a sheet of paper? And then watched it, like... Ripple forever?
That's how you should treat visualisation.
Make your mind as still as a country lake. That way, when you drop the faintest thought into it late
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By recognizing the higher-level consequences nature optimizes for, I've come to see that people who overweigh the first-order consequences of their decisions and ignore the effects of second- and subsequent-order consequences rarely reach their goals. This is because first-order consequences often have opposite desirabilities from second-order cons
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secondary effect — longevity thinking
"How to clarify a concept you can't articulate:
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?"(James Clear newsletter)
Barbara added 2mo ago
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