You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
– Feynman
You’re under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
Once upon a time, there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
It’s called a ‘story spine’.
Creates a setup, change through conflict, and a resolution.
Useful for writers, marketers, and anyone selling anything.
Parkinson’s Law is the old adage that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
The 80/20 rule states that about 20% of causes produce about 80% of outcomes.
Accumulative advantage is what begins as a small advantage gets bigger over time. Situations in which small differences in performance lead to outsized rewards are known as Winner-Take-All Effects.
Winner-Take-All Effects in individual competitions can lead to Winner-Take-Most Effects in the larger game of life.
The 1 Percent Rule states that over time the majority of the rewards in a given field will accumulate to the people, teams, and organizations that maintain a 1 percent advantage over the alternatives. You don’t need to be twice as good to get twice the results. You just need to be slightly better.
This is the downside of the 80/20 Rule: A new path will never look like the most effective option in the beginning.
James Clear on Pareto Prinicple, Jownside of Pareto Prinicple, James Clear on Slightly better
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.” ― Timothy Ferriss,
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Seneca
There are two fundamental realities that we live in.
1- Â An internal landscape with thoughts and feelings.
2- A physical environment where we interact with objects and people.
Most often in life, we tend to confuse the two. These two merge in together. Some of the thoughts we have in our internal landscape never quite materialize.
We have anxiety and worry about circumstances that are yet to come.
The elusive nature of thoughts brings us more misery than just meaningless armchair philosophy.
No one seems to argue the validity of your everyday thoughts. As Sherlock Holmes does, we all need to be keen observers of our thoughts.
Meditation is the key to overcome the thoughts.
If the feeling of boredom or frustration sets in, don’t just distract yourself with social media. Stay with the feeling for awhile. Start observing the thoughts that led to the emotions.
Become a detective of your thoughts. Make mindfulness a constant habit.
Your future self will thank you for it.
Depression is a fictional story your mind has created. If you choose to believe it, you become depressed.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. — Epictetus