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“Simply listing the pros and cons doesn’t capture the full range of motivations that drive your choices. Rather than illuminating what you really want, social psychologist Timothy D. Wilson warns, such lists can provide plausible-sounding but hollow reasons to pursue choices that do not reflect your authentic needs and desires.”
Le Cunff, Anne Laure. Tiny Experiments. Ch. 8
“Social flow helps explain why what you know is inseparable from who you know. Instead of feeling like building relationships is the “dirty work” of your otherwise exciting experiments—the grim but necessary self-promotion that distracts you from making progress and honing your craft—you will find that the relationships worth prioritizing won’t
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“An error in an artwork creates a feeling that something is possible; it is an open window to something we do not control,” as Cedric van Eenoo beautifully puts it.
Le Cunff, Anne Laure. Tiny Experiments. Ch. 6
“As one of my friends lamented, deciphering deadlines that feel like suggestions, navigating the bureaucratic maze, enduring delayed trains, and knowing when yes actually means no are all part of the Italian experience.”
—On “dolce vita” and the Italian way of excellence with imperfections
Le Cunff, Anne Laure. Tiny Experiments. Ch. 6
“Trosky never tried to keep the top spot any one year but rather to place in the top 10 percent over ten years, aiming for long-term excellence rather than peak performance . . . Trosky calls this way of investing strategic mediocrity. His thesis is that it is possible to be excellent over the long term by not investing in the highest-performing
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Why Change Is So Scary — and How to Unlock Its Potential | Maya Shankar | TED
youtube.comHow might this change . . . change how you define yourself?
Maybe instead of attaching yourself to what you are doing, attach yourself to the ‘why’ of the action.
two ways Greeks define time:
1) Chronos: quantity
2)Kairos quality
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny experiments • Ch. 4
uncertainty has been found to cause more stress than inevitable pain.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny experiments • Ch. 1
“Rene’ Girad called this phenomenon mimetic desire: we desire something because we see others desiring it.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny experiments • Ch. 5