Jacob Pettit
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Jacob Pettit
- The discipline of taking notes can evolve into taking notice —which is a much higher level activity.
from How I Take Notes by Ted Gioia
“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”-Marcus Aurelius
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
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30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024)
In other words, I took notes when I was younger in order to learn. But I now take notes in order to enhance my own ways of engaging with the world.
Gurwinder on Substack
