Joshua Balarie
@cowboyjosh
Joshua Balarie
I felt like I became fully conscious for the first time, and that included a realization about how, like stress, most limitations are self-imposed.
Why stop at competency? Why not be brilliant? Why stop at satisfaction? Why not be ecstatic? Why stop at gratitude? Why not be pleased? Just wear the dress and buy the shoes and burn the candle, do it be... See more
Why stop at competency? Why not be brilliant? Why stop at satisfaction? Why not be ecstatic? Why stop at gratitude? Why not be pleased? Just wear the dress and buy the shoes and burn the candle, do it be... See more
How lucky are you allowed to get?
Try it. Go around your day, narrating all of your choices to yourself. With everything you do, consciously say, in your head: “I am choosing to do this, because it’s the best course of action according to all the information I have available.” See if it feels true. It might — perhaps this exercise will reinforce your conviction. But you might also ... See more
In praise of quitting
Chance I is completely impersonal; you can’t influence it.... See more
Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore.
Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly formin
pmarchive.com • Pmarchive - Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
To recap, in my post I argued that you should think of self help as a form of ‘technê’ — the word that the Ancient Greeks used to describe tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge is the sort of knowledge that is difficult to teach and must be mastered by practice — that is, things like music, martial arts, and business. I then argued that to simplify matt... See more
Cedric Chin • Surprising Implications of Treating Self-Help as Art
What is the opportunity cost? If I do this, if I go on this vacation, if I get this car, what am I turning down? By asking yourself this, and then consistently aiming to pick the thing that optimizes for what you most deeply value—it adds up. It makes life rich.
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing
That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again