Value-Simplicity
“The Paradox of Freedom: The way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus.
The disciplined become the free.”
- Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom.
- Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom.
- Stay focused on learning to achieve intellectual freedom.
The disciplined become the free.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On waiting to judge, the value of teaching, and learning how to lose
Robert Louis Stevenson on living one day at a time:
"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means."
Source: An Apology for Idlers
"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means."
Source: An Apology for Idlers
Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny.
The courage isn't in taking on more, it's in cutting off everything that doesn't feed your goal.
Focus requires subtraction.
The courage isn't in taking on more, it's in cutting off everything that doesn't feed your goal.
Focus requires subtraction.
Brain Food: Loyal to Distractions
“ One reason the best in the world make consistently good decisions is they rarely find themselves forced into a decision by circumstances. ”
Brain Food: The Most Valuable Skill
1 Question For You
Your environment whispers suggestions all day long—eat this, click that, sit here. Look around you right now. What small change could you make to your surroundings that would steer you toward good habits and away from distractions?
Your environment whispers suggestions all day long—eat this, click that, sit here. Look around you right now. What small change could you make to your surroundings that would steer you toward good habits and away from distractions?
spend less time choosing and more time sorting.
Sorting and choosing
The simple life hack is to lower your expectations, regardless of what you’re entitled to. Create the conditions for the outcome you seek, but leave yourself room if it doesn’t arrive.
Lowering expectations is a way to ensure that tomorrow is even better than you hope it will be.
Lowering expectations is a way to ensure that tomorrow is even better than you hope it will be.
Expectations
Good decisions are calculations based on what you know right now. If the world turns out differently than the data you had indicated, that’s not a bad decision.
A bad decision is one that isn’t based on available facts. It falls into traps like sunk costs or peer pressure. A bad decision is an error in judgment or skill. Good decision makers, when f... See more
A bad decision is one that isn’t based on available facts. It falls into traps like sunk costs or peer pressure. A bad decision is an error in judgment or skill. Good decision makers, when f... See more
Poet Sylvia Plath on the courage to close doors:
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go b... See more
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go b... See more