Mateo Balaña Paemen
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Mateo Balaña Paemen
Avoid the fate of the lion: stop gazing at all the options and just get started. Starting before you feel ready is one of the [habits of successful people.
James Clear • How to Focus and Concentrate Better
What happens when children are denied this kind of spontaneous free play - denied the space to pretend? The most extreme end of research - and it is admittedly extreme - can be found in the work of psychiatrist Stuart Brown. After the 1966 shooting at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman short forty-six people from the top of a tower on
... See moreWhen 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
Saying No to Being BusyAs a society, we've fallen into a trap of busyness and overwork. In many ways, we have mistaken all this activity to be something meaningful. The underlying thought seems to be, “Look how busy I am? If I'm doing all this work, I must be doing something important.” And, by extension, “I must be important because I'm so... See more
James Clear • The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work
Email is a time debt that most people participate in each day. If you send an email now, you are committing to reading the reply or responding with an additional message later. Every email you send creates a small debt that you have to pay back at a later time.
JamesClear.com • A Different Way of Thinking About Productivity
What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not a homeostatic equilibrium, but rather the will to meaning, guiding him toward a future that is yet to be made his own.
- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via Max McCoy on youtube)
The tip: Read 20 pages to start the day.
How to Read More: The Simple System I'm Using to Read 30+ Books Per Year
When Mr. Soros was actively managing his fund, he would suffer from backaches, and said that he “used the onset of acute pain as a signal that there was something wrong in my portfolio.”
David Gelles • ‘Trust Your Gut’ Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says (Published 2016)
traders who follower their intuition and “are in tune with their heartbeat” make more money