Mateo Balaña Paemen

A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more

I would suggest that we all spend some time considering the likelihood that when nothing is happening, something is happening

The objective? avoid mental drag"Imagine that your brain is a computer. At the beginning of the day, your brain powers up and you have 100 percent of your computer memory available to use on your life. The only problem is that every time you add a task to your to-do list, a little bit of your computer memory goes toward that task."

“ If you write every cold email like it might change your life, one may. If you don't, none will.”

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Ok, this year I’m going to get better at this. Next year, that.’ And so forth and so on. And patiently, I got better.” Patiently, he repeats. “It was piece by piece. It was the consistency of the work. The consistency of the work: Monday, get better. Tuesday, get better. Wednesday, get better. You do that over a period of time—three, four, five,... See more

So, if talking to strangers seems daunting to you, it might help to think that by doing so, you could give someone the gift of being seen.