Moi Jamri
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Moi Jamri
Work on hard problems, driven mainly by curiosity, but have a second self watching over your shoulder, taking note of gaps and anomalies.
paulgraham.com • How to Get Startup Ideas
"For some reason, because of the way investor psychology works, people switch from only seeing the good to seeing only the bad.” -Marks
"I have learnt that self-discipline is everything," Kipchoge says, summing up two decades at the top of his game. "I am nothing without it because it has given me the power of knowing that I need to sacrifice one thing to achieve another."
Eliud Kipchoge: Lessons from world marathonchampion - TRT Afrika
Incentives are what drive human behavior. If you want to change the way people behave, think about changing their incentives. Most people look at the function utility instead of the emotional benefit. What’s the real human motivation for expensive headphones is not to hear better but for reputation and status
You should stick to your priorities.
Life Lessons Learned From Eliud Kipchoge’s Speech At Oxford - CITIUS Mag
Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers [The Knowledge ...
fs.blog
“Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backwards. What happens if all our plans go wrong? Where don’t we want to go, and how do you get there?
"Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead–through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid... See more
"Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead–through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid... See more
Inversion
At its core, Occam’s Razor is a principle that suggests that when faced with competing explanations for an event or occurrence, you should select the explanation that makes the fewest number of assumptions.
Occam's Razor: The Atomic Mental Model - Sketchy Ideas %
“The antidote to fear is trust. Trusting others doesn't mean that they won't make mistakes. It means that if they do (or if you do), you trust they will act to help solve it.” -Catmull