The world is not designed to give you a good life. It's designed to distract you from building one.
Eric
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The world is not designed to give you a good life. It's designed to distract you from building one.
Steven Teles’ “kludgeocracy” is the general diagnosis: complexity accretes faster than anyone’s ability to understand or explain it, which erodes trust independent of whether outcomes are actually bad.
The confidence to achieve great success isn’t specific—it is broad. That you can figure it out. It is the cornerstone of everything because that’s exactly what you’ll have to do.
The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.
- Leo Rosten
You risk so much hesitating to fling yourself into the abyss
Scarcity dictates what’s meaningful.
When you are alone, a relationship feels meaningful.
When you’re in a relationship, time to yourself feels meaningful.
When you are overworked, time off feels meaningful.
When you have plenty of downtime, work feels meaningful.
The scarcity never gets solved, it simply changes form.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
Don’t you think maybe they are the same thing? Love and attention?
- Greta Gerwig
It is not your studies that will bear fruit but the intensity of your attention.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered. Pick a skill to acquire and begin to practice.
You can't outperform your attitude.
What you believe about the work shows up in how you do the work, and how you do the work determines your results.
Fix the attitude first. Everything else follows.
“If you’re in a place in life you don’t want to be, it’s up to you to make it better. To reframe it by focusing on the positive, and approaching it with enthusiasm. In the end, your positivity and enthusiasm will contribute to creating the outcome you’re after. Once you apply this mindset to all aspects of your life, you corner fear. Fear basically has nowhere to go.”
TB12
GM
I wanted to share my new favorite way to tie shoes (especially slip on shoes that have laces). It’s called the Berluti knot. This video is the best explainer on how to do it. The way I think about it is typical bunny ears method but you bring the end of the strings with it. The end product looks good and it’s pretty simple to do.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
In order to truly master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field and border on religious.
In my experience, this passion helps keep you motivated to keep working at your craft.