Jacob Pettit
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Jacob Pettit
“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” - Marcus Aurelius
We remain a society obsessed with individual achievement. We equate success with elevation: “Climbing the ladder”, “Scaling my Everest”, “Being on top of the world”. Fatherhood is changing you. But if you step back, you’ll see it's changing all of us together. What might happen to a group of dads who realise they could help change each other?
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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
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Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius
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One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See morethere's something transformative about achieving a third-person perspective on the contents of your mind by externalizing them on paper. You know how it's often easy to see what someone else needs to do about their problems? Externalising your thoughts can trigger similar insights on your own behalf. And even when it doesn't, the shift in perspecti... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Three pages a day
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 moreYou shouldn’t have a to-do list, you should just put stuff into your calendar. Schedule it. -Paraphrasing Tim Ferris on the Modern Wisdom podcast