Tejas Gawande
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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.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
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.
How to Do Great Work
Delayed gratification is the key to life
Invest 30 minutes of that in building your vision for the future. That's just 2% of your day, but if you do it for a year, that vision may become your reality.
- Read or write
- Build a prototype
- Meet one new person
- Learn a new skill
4 Simple Habits to Transform Your Weeks | The Curiosity Chronicle
Invest 30 mins every day
At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.
Childhoods of Exceptional People
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
The Top of My Todo List
A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying
The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard kernel with a hammer and chisel, one should simply let it sit in water and wait. Over time, the shell softens and opens with ease. This is also true in writing; time is the only non-substitutable ingr... See more
Epiphanies Come From Waiting
Epiphanies come from waiting. You need patience, to let your ideas transform into what they could be.
Opportunity is a function of density
Opportunity is a function of surrounding oneself with successful people.
Studies show that individuals end up resembling their five closest friends in various aspects of life. While they may have similar incomes, their financial outcomes vary greatly.
To achieve financial security and success, it is advisable to be... See more
Opportunity is a function of surrounding oneself with successful people.
Studies show that individuals end up resembling their five closest friends in various aspects of life. While they may have similar incomes, their financial outcomes vary greatly.
To achieve financial security and success, it is advisable to be... See more
You rise or fall to the level of your peer group