Katharina Sommerkamp
@katsommerkamp
Katharina Sommerkamp
Instead of trying to trip people up, we should give them the chance to put their best foot forward.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
"On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions".
Thomas Sowell
achieving a sense of progress doesn’t require huge gains. Fuel can come from small wins.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
The overarching point is that what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Worry, at its core, is the repetitious experience of a mind attempting to generate a feeling of security about the future, failing, then trying again and again and again – as if the very effort of worrying might somehow help forestall disaster.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.”
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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
A quote by Mark Twain
If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right
Jason Snyder • Tweet
To echo Cassy Kazyrkov, former decision scientist at Google: “Today’s AI revolution isn’t an AI revolution at all. It’s a UX revolution.”
Medium
One of the fundamental choices that you face on Earth is the degree to which you’ll pursue deeper but riskier fulfillment or practice avoidance that exempts you from bad feelings but leaves you bereft of good ones.