Writing ideas
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
Reading and watching
At the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one option among many.
Question the defaults
High Agency marriage
Why Most People Are Only Giving 70%—and What Happens at 100% | John Amaechi for Big Think+
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The Fee Model - Focus, Effort, Execution.
I may put effort into an idea, but if it lacks focus and well-executed execution, that effort will fall short. I think to add is this concept of attention when paying the fee.
Understand that there is a dip - and apply attention when paying the fee - When you have movement in life a attentional momentum forward you will run into walls, you will have moments where attention slows - this allows for the heckler in your mind to prepouse ideas that aren’t entirely your own - you are the person listing to the hackler.
The heckler responded poorly to well-asked questions. - ie, “ you will fail at this speech, “ you - “ why will I fail? “
When parents pay attention to the wrong thing.
You only waste time if you’re not intentional about how you spend it.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
Haven’t read the book but enjoyed the words