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Eli
In general, even the worst atrocities typically have been committed not simply because they are bad but as a side effect of other actions or as a means to some other end.
William MacAskill • What We Owe the Future
Every time you talk to someone, you should be asking at least one question which has the potential to destroy your currently imagined business.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Mark Manson • Be Impossible to Offend
the problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Toolkit to activate excitement:
Act on your highest excitement
Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)
To the best of your ability
Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it
... See more“Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher.” – Michael Jordan