Summary: The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. • …
Reward yourself after completing challenges, even badly. (View Highlight)
History remembers those who got to market first. Getting your creation out into the world is more important than getting it perfect. (View Highlight)
Discipline is superior to motivation. The former can be trained, the latter is fleeting. You won’t be able to accomplish great things if you’re only relying on motivation. (View Highlight)
Make accomplishing things as easy as possible. Find the easiest way to start exercising. Find the easiest way to start writing. People make things harder than they have to be and get frustrated when they can’t succeed. Try not to. (View Highlight)
Cultivate a reputation for being dependable. Good reputations are valuable because they’re rare (easily destroyed and hard to rebuild). You don’t have to brew the most amazing coffee if your customers know the coffee will always be hot. (View Highlight)
How you spend every day is how you spend your life (View Highlight)
Whenever you receive advice, consider its opposite as well. You might be filtering out the advice you need most. (View Highlight)
Things that aren’t your fault can still be your responsibility. (View Highlight)
Keep your identity small. “I’m not the kind of person who does things like that” is not an explanation, it’s a trap. It prevents nerds from working out and men from dancing. (View Highlight)
To start defining your problems, say (out loud) “everything in my life is completely fine.” Notice what objections arise. (View Highlight)
To start defining your problems, say (out loud) “everything in my life is completely fine.” Notice what objections arise. (View Highlight)
To start defining your problems, say (out loud) “everything (View Highlight)
To start defining your problems, say (out loud) “everything in my life is completely fine.” Notice what objections arise. (View Highlight)
To start defining your problems, say (out loud) “everything in my life is completely fine.” Notice what objections arise. (View Highlight)
start defining your problems, say (out loud) “everything in my life is completely fine.” Notice what objections arise. (View Highlight)
Personal epiphanies feel great, but they fade within weeks. Upon having an epiphany, make a plan and start actually changing behavior. (View Highlight)
Think a little about why you enjoy what you enjoy. If you can explain what you love about Dune, you can now communicate not only with Dune fans, but with people who love those aspects in other books. (View Highlight)
A norm of eating with your family without watching something will lead to better conversations. If this idea fills you with dread, consider getting a new family. (View Highlight)
Don’t complain about your partner to coworkers or online. The benefits are negligible and the cost is destroying a bit of your soul. (View Highlight)
Call your parents when you think of them, tell your friends when you love them. (View Highlight)
Compliment people more. Many people have trouble thinking of themselves as smart, or pretty, or kind, unless told by someone else. You can help them out. (View Highlight)
Cultivate compassion for those less intelligent than you. Many people, through no fault of their own, can’t handle forms, scammers, or complex situations. Be kind to them because the world is not. (View Highlight)
Cultivate patience for difficult people. Communication is extremely complicated and involves getting both tone and complex ideas across. Many people can barely do either. Don’t punish them. (View Highlight)
Don't punish people for admitting they were wrong, you make it harder for them to improve. (View Highlight)
Human mood and well-being are heavily influenced by simple things: Exercise, good sleep, light, being in nature. It’s cheap to experiment with these. (View Highlight)
Sturgeon’s law states that 90% of everything is crap. If you dislike poetry, or fine art, or anything, it’s possible you’ve only ever seen the crap. Go looking! (View Highlight)
Some types of sophistication won’t make you enjoy the object more, they’ll make you enjoy it less. For example, wine snobs don’t enjoy wine twice as much as you, they’re more keenly aware of how most wine isn’t good enough. Avoid sophistication that diminishes your enjoyment. (View Highlight)
Liking and wanting things are different. There are things like junk food that you want beyond enjoyment. But you can also like things (like reading) without wanting them. If you remember enjoying something but don't feel a desire for it now, try pushing yourself. (View Highlight)
Bad things happen dramatically (a pandemic). Good things happen gradually (malaria deaths dropping annually) and don’t feel like ‘news’. Endeavour to keep track of the good things to avoid an inaccurate and dismal view of the world. (View Highlight)
