51 notes tagged with "thought"

Your life is what you do with your attention

Your life is a string of moments. In each one you're choosing to pay attention to something or something has grabbed your attention…

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Created on 3rd April, 2021

imaginary obstacles

Although it is nice to imagine that our goals and meaning are derived in some absolute way (and maybe we should strive for them to be) they…

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Created on 24th February, 2021

Completely separate planning and action

You can live each moment for itself even in the context of greater progress This is one possible solution to trying to reconcile the fact…

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Created on 3rd March, 2021

Be Concise

We can't understand complex ideas and people have short attention spans. People aren't listening or reading closely; they are preparing what…

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Created on 10th April, 2021

Do what energizes you

You don't need to care about the bullshit in both business and life. Your business doesn't need to be big unless that accomplishes something…

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Created on 8th May, 2021

Cultivating virtues is practical for better consequences

Even though I'm a consequentialist, I think that intellectual, moral, and personal virtues are useful to practice and cultivate in our daily…

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Created on 3rd March, 2021

Framing your current struggles as future growth

It's easy to appreciate your past struggles and the growth that came from them, but it's hard to recognize that your current struggles may…

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Created on 21st February, 2021

Identity change is necessary for long-term behavior change

"I'm trying to stop drinking" vs. "I don't drink" "I'm trying to quit" says this is something you want to do but is not yet reconciled with…

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Created on 4th March, 2021

Growth comes from doing it when you're not motivated

The payoff of Systems are better than goals is the exponential growth of habits. 1% better every day means 37 times better in a year. When…

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Created on 2nd March, 2021

More info isn't the answer

Some of us (and probably you if you're reading this) are a little too obsessed with collecting knowledge. It seems like if we knew more we…

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Created on 24th March, 2021

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