Tejas Gawande
@tejas
Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
Tejas Gawande
@tejas
Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
Once again I was struck by one of the miracles of the cognitive process—that the act of writing will summon from the buried past exactly what we need exactly when we need it. Memory and intuition and chance associations will always generate a certain percentage of what any writer writes. The remainder is generated by reason.
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
Delayed gratification is the key to life
Invest 30 mins every day
Exception people did some kind of cognitive apprenticeships in their teenage.
Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy
A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying
Epiphanies come from waiting. You need patience, to let your ideas transform into what they could be.
You rise or fall to the level of your peer group