Perzen Patel
@perzen
I want to take you beyond butter chicken. Indian food advocate, small biz owner and story-teller by passion. Communications professional and writer by trade. Mom to two boys with 1,000,000 questions daily 24/7.
Perzen Patel
perzen.substack.com
The 20-Minute Writing Exercise That Neuroscientists Say Can Solve Your Hardest Problems
Magdalena Ponurskaopen.substack.com
The one AI workflow most people miss:
Use it to translate your expertise into questions.
You know your field deeply. You forgot what it's like not to know.
Prompt: "I understand [concept]. What are 10 questions someone who's 6 months behind me would ask about... See more
Mia Kiraki đźŽsubstack.comPeople do well if they CAN do well. If they can they will. If they could they would.
This is in contrast to the notion that people do well when they WANT to.
It’s a skill problem rather than a will problem
The key to successful relationships is to stop keeping score and instead focus on being the partner you aspire to be.
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The second is, and this is kind of the most important, is, and I didn't learn this, and this was the biggest unlock, I think, for me in terms of my relationships with my partner and my friends and my parents, was to put away the scorecard.
And that is, relationships are a transaction to a certain extent. You might be providing economic security
... See moreYou go first and
Remember that nothing is perfect on its own. Everything good in life requires effort, a daily deposit. The grass isn't greener on the other side, the grass is greener where you water it.
— Sahil Bloom
The business of business and Winning at life
Finding green grass
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with... See more
Working hard and
staying small and
Keep taking things away
social media and
Repurposing content