Sublime

Growth is driven by compounding, which always takes time. Destruction is driven by single points of failure, which can happen in seconds, and loss of confidence, which can happen in an instant.

We’re wired up to think about the world in simple linear terms, because that’s how most of the things around us work. If you plant one seed, you get one carrot. If you produce one more dongle, you earn one more dollar. Your hair steadily grows by a fraction of a millimetre each day; you don’t just wake up one morning looking like the lovechild of T

Complex Mental Models