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you can use positive constraints to increase perceived free will and results. Freeform days might seem idyllic, but they are paralyzing due to continual paradox of choice (e.g., "What should I do now?") and decision fatigue (e.g., "What should I have for breakfast?"). In"
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What will the people who don't hold you in highest regard say about you?
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If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "Discipline equals freedom." Everyone wants freedom. We want to be physically free and mentally free. We want to be financially free and we want more free time. But where does that freedom come from? How do we get it? The answer is the opposite of freedom. The answer is discipline. You want more free time? Follow a more disciplined time-managemen..
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And if all else fails, I try to obey this message I got in a Chinese fortune cookie (which I have since taped to my laptop): "Avoid compulsively making things worse."
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Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head.
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People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive. --JOSEPH CAMPBELL, The Power of Myth
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Look creatively at your resume, work experience, physical habits, and hobbies and compile a list of all the groups, past and present, that you can associate yourself with.
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Good Stories Always Beat Good Spreadsheets" "Whether you are raising money, pitching your product to customers, selling the company, or recruiting employees, never forget that underneath all the math and the MBA bullshit talk, we are all still emotionally driven human beings. We want to attach ourselves to narratives. We don't act because of equations. We follow our beliefs. We get behind leaders who stir our feelings. In the early days of ..
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As
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Being busy is a form of laziness--lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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True Films On TrueFilms.com, Kevin has reviewed the best documentaries he's seen over decades. The counterpart book series, True Films 3.0, contains the 200 documentaries he feels you should see before you die, and it is available as a PDF on kk.org. Three docs we both love are The King of Kong, Man on Wire, and A State of Mind.
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The Tail End" by Tim Urban on the Wait But Why blog--if you only read one article this month, make it that one. It"
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Time is wasted because there is so much time available.
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Refuse to accept partial completeness.
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Out of clutter, find simplicity. --Albert Einstein
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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. --BILL COSBY
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. --PABLO PICASSO
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Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.' Think
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You don't need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.
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courage was more important than confidence. When you are operating out of courage, you are saying that no matter how you feel about yourself or your opportunities or the outcome, you are going to take a risk and take a step toward what you want. You are not waiting for the confidence to mysteriously arrive. I now believe that confidence is achieved through repeated success at any endeavor.
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If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."--Betty Reese"
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What we really need to do, to design, is look at the extremes. The weakest, or the person with arthritis, or the athlete, or the strongest, the fastest person, because if we understand what the extremes are, the middle will take care of itself." In other words, the extremes inform the mean, but not vice versa."
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Law 6: When forced to compromise, ask for more. Law 7: If you can't win, change the rules. Law 8: If you can't change the rules, then ignore them. Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher. Law 13: When in doubt: THINK. Law 16: The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live. Law 17: The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself. (adopted from Alan Kay) Law 19: You get what you incentivize. Law..
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I overhear Bobby Flay say, "Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple." I"
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. --VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man's Search for Meaning
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No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever (cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com,10 etc.). No television at all, except for one hour of pleasure viewing each evening. No reading books, except for this book and one hour of fiction11 pleasure reading prior to bed. No web surfing at the desk unless it is necessary to complete a work task for that day. Necessary means nece..
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80% of the results come from 20% of the effort and time.
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Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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I eventually learned to cook by focusing on two principles. Both of them apply to all learning and will be your constant companions throughout this book: failure points and the margin of safety.
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sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn't matter; an open mind does.
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If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow. Ben
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When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.
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We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore. --OPRAH WINFREY, actress and talk-show host, The Oprah Winfrey Show
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If you're confused about life, you're not alone. There are almost seven billion of us. This isn't a problem, of course, once you realize that life is neither a problem to be solved nor a game to be won. If you are too intent on making the pieces of a nonexistent puzzle fit, you miss out on all the real fun. The heaviness of success-chasing can be replaced with a serendipitous lightness when you recognize that the only rules and limits are ..
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Kids don't do what you say. They do what they see. How you live your life is their example.
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What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? [My advice:] Pursue every project, idea, or industry that genuinely lights you up, regardless of how unrelated each idea is, or how unrealistic a long-term career in that field might now seem. You'll connect the dots later. Work your fucking ass off and develop a reputation for going above and beyond in all situatio..
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For a long time, I've known that the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. --CALVIN, from Calvin and Hobbes
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Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition." --W.H. Auden"
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." -Marcus Aurelius"
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If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. --CHINESE PROVERB
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Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15-30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path. How do I know? I've been there and
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Did you eat half an Oreo cookie? No problem. If you're a 220-pound male, you just need to climb 27 flights of stairs to burn it off.
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