Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Many of your friends will be afraid to give you harsh feedback. Remedy that by asking: “What’s the 10% I need to keep, no matter what? A followup question: “What’s the 10% I’ll cut, if I absolutely had to cut?” (Got this from my interview with Tim Ferris
David Perell • 31 Ways to Improve Your Writing
Editing tip. Feedback tip. Writing
As long as I’m still moving in that direction—toward wonder—then I know I will always be fine in my soul, which is where it counts. And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Distraction & passion
Eventually we’ll have machines that can dream. But there’ll always still be the hard, dumb, bottleneck that is human effort. You shape what you make and it shapes you right back. When you get stuck nothing is going to help you get unstuck except sheer stubbornness and self-driven motion. That’s the most rewarding part though: if you expend enough... See more
momentum
M: Because he has been conditioned to believe that if he does X, Y, and Z . . . he will attain the thing he is trying to attain. He fails to understand that the X’s, the Y’s, and the Z’s serve only themselves. They do not serve the thing he is trying to attain.
Kapil Gupta • There Is No HOW
The plan will not work and is only focused on the plan
Honesty is a core, core, core value. By honesty, I mean I want to be able to just be me. I never want to be in an environment or around people where I have to watch what I say. If I disconnect what I’m thinking from what I’m saying, it creates multiple threads in my mind. I’m no longer in the moment—now I have to be future-planning or
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
To the extent money buys freedom, it’s great. But to the extent it makes me less free, which it definitely does at some level as well, I don’t like it. [74] The winners of any game are the people who are so addicted they continue playing even as the marginal utility from winning declines.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Challenged perspective
When I try to make the best thing, it feels different. It feels like I’m trying to prove something to someone instead of trying to discover something for myself. It feels dishonest and disrespectful of where I’m at. I’m not the best, so why should I try to make the best things? I’m just me, so I should make me things.