Reza Saeedi
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Reza Saeedi
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones. Stop filling our head with unnecessary thoughts or needless emotional burdens, clear up the clutter in our head and heart. Make our tasks fun to do. Rest properly and don’t overload ourself or push ourself to burnout. Break our tasks down into several steps and make the first step very easy to
... See moreVacation won't make things better. Changing jobs won't make things better. Getting the recognition you deserve won't make things better. Drugs won't make things better.
Brain Food: Personal Responsibility
A player's ability to complete their quest is a function of the quest and their own skills, resources, and powers. Quests that are easy for certain players are nearly impossible for others: Olympic runners will regularly run sub-5 minute miles during training, even though this would be an incredibly ambitious goal for most people.
Trae Stephens • Choose Good Quests
Quests tend to manifest as an objective we center our lives around. Your quest might be to reach a specific milestone: to become a senator, to publish a book, to make a million dollars. But not all quests have an end state. You might be on a quest to maximize your net worth, or to bench-press more weight than anyone else at the gym. Maybe you’re
... See moreTrae Stephens • Choose Good Quests
I was very lucky at Apple, because Steve [Jobs] showed me there was a way to articulate things like sensibility, intuition, taste, which all start with a feeling. But first I had to make friends with this frustrating part of myself, which was the inability to articulate what I feel.
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
excitement and nervousness are so closely linked that your body can’t tell the difference. the only difference is the label. next time you feel nervous, call it excitement instead.
tadzio dlugolecki • 29 reminders for 29 years
Passion creates, addiction consumes.
– Gabor Maté
– Gabor Maté