Mateo Balaña Paemen
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Mateo Balaña Paemen
But look beneath the technique and what did you find? A sameness, a mental weariness, a mediocrity of ideas. But they could defend every ad on the basis that it obeyed the rules of advertising. It was like worshiping a ritual instead of the God.
Like worshipping a ritual instead of the god.
When a lion tamer holds a chair in front of the lion’s face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time. With its focus divided, the lion becomes confused and is unsure about what to do next. When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.
James Clear • How to Focus and Concentrate Better
The part around how to add delight and fluidity and simplicity (basically the whole thing) is really cool. Really thoughtful.
TIME DEBTS are actions or choices you make today that will cost you additional time in the future.
JamesClear.com • A Different Way of Thinking About Productivity
Productivity and
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
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
This is interesting. There are good and bad people in any discipline. It’s more important to be good in a discipline rather than the discipline itself.
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world.
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”