Sublime

Train your “lower-level you” with kindness and persistence to build the right habits.

Evolving is life’s greatest accomplishment and its greatest reward.

You can always change your plan, but only if you have one.

Taleb notes that this has been a successful strategy throughout history: “Many of the ‘doers’ turned ‘thinkers’ like Montaigne have done a serial barbell: pure action, then pure reflection.” With no comparisons to Montaigne intended, this is the approach I’ve taken. I worked intensely for almost five years in what was a fulfilling and rewarding

Regularly use pain as your guide toward quality reflection.

The only option is to forge your own path. You must set a conscious goal, create clarity through self-education and experimentation, and abide by the principle of progressive overload: to increase the challenge, practice until your skill is up to par, and repeat the process as life lessons compound into a personal philosophy that can be shared to

Generating better options is much more important than being a perfect decision-maker.

“Bad companies,” Andy wrote, “are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”

3. Ideate. Generate possible solutions using any means you like—brainstorming, mind mapping, sketching on napkins . . . however you work best. 4. Prototype. Without going crazy to make anything perfect (or even close to it), build your project in physical form, or develop the plans for what you’re going to enact. 5. Test and get feedback.