Tom Schmidt

On change: We unconsciously adopt narratives about the shape of our lives from previous generations, movie plots, and our peers. These “scripts” are often useful but tend to outlive their purpose as we age. Much of life is about figuring out which stories to discard as you age.

When dreaming, imagine success. When preparing, imagine failure. — James Clear

Author Jonathan Safran Foer on happiness:

“I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."

And OpenAI appears to continue to decide its model names by sprinkling the blood of a virgin intern into a bag of Scrabble tiles, praying to get something good, and picking whatever jumble of letters comes out.

Instead of working slightly harder, go insane for two weeks and make something huge.

Rules about overthinking: You can’t think your way out of a feeling problem, overthinking is under-feeling, your brain ruminates because it hates uncertainty so much that it would rather fantasize a catastrophe than deal with uncertainty, whatever you fear creates the boundaries of your freedom, the more you think about yourself the harder it is to... See more

Go make mistakes that nobody has ever made before, try to make them in small increments, and fix them as fast as you find them

Bill Bernbach, founder of advertising agency DDB, reminds us that it is not enough to be right — you must also be compelling:

"A dull truth will not be looked at. An exciting lie will. That is what good, sincere people must understand. They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead."

Source: Bill Bernbach Said...