Dont aim for better ways to get through a task. Instead look for projects you never wanna stop doing. Surrender to your nature.

What people need most is confidence, not advice

(reminds me ot Tyler Cowen’s high value of raising people’s aspirations)

All knowledge is intuitive. Intelligence is a measure of presence.

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)

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 t