values
by Barbara · updated 2mo ago
values
by Barbara · updated 2mo ago
Barbara added 5mo ago
Barbara added 5mo ago
Cashing in for short-term pleasure leads to long-term agony.
— Ray Dalio
Barbara added 5mo ago
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
If you try to find time for your most valued activities by first dealing with all the other important demands on your time, in the hope that there’ll be some left over at the end, you’ll be disappointed. So if a certain activity really matters to you – a creative project, say, though it could just as easily be nurturing a relationship, or activism
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“I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once wrote that every entrepreneur’s dream is to succeed at building an impossibly hard business and then finally open a local coffee shop to be happy.”
Barbara added 2mo ago
Inconsistency sends mixed signals. Confusing. Lack of responsibility. Here..there.. hot.. cold.. Like water, you don’t want your shower water to fluctuate.
Barbara added 4mo ago
Barbara added 5mo ago
Barbara added 4mo ago
creation over consumption
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