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"Whether you are an adult or child, your first attempts will often seem unimportant or foolish.
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 more
- 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 more
3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
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
... See moreBy 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
... See moresecondary effect — longevity thinking