"I don't have time to be unhappy."
Our time is too valuable to waste it being unhappy. Get your mind focused on what's possible rather than going down the negative news rabbit hole. Here's a path.
Topic
vision
A collection of 11 issues
We're doing it wrong
Doing it wrong is the theme that's surfaced over the past couple of weeks. From education to how we take notes and write and work, we're doing it wrong. And have been for a very long time. Or maybe not totally wrong, but not as well
You can pretty much do it all if you want.
I am afflicted with generalis curiosis. In plain speak, I insatiable curiosity. Which begets many different interests. These interests flare up from time to time and then go back to a slow simmer. But squelched? Never. Even as I sought spend the required 10,000 hours to hone my craft.
What if you could make saving the climate your calling?
Before I'd read the dire UN report on the climate crisis, I'd planned to focus this week's letter on climate change. In case you missed it, the report discussed how where we're locked into a 1.5 degree celsius increase in temperature
Less certainty. More inquiry.
This week I've been reading Maria Konnikova's The Biggest Bluff in which she goes deep into the Poker world to study decision making. I'm not a gambler and initially wrote off her book as Poker doesn't interest me. However, this snapshot from
Killing Ants
Face it, you're not good enough.
Is that the story you tell yourself?
You know the saying, “you're your own worst critic?”
It's not serving you. I know I've told myself such stories. More than anyone else has told me such stories.
Where have you been all my life?
How many times have you asked that question of something or someone who made you wonder what you did with out it or them? How many people have asked that about you?
If you haven't been asked that question. Or asked that question yourself, then pause for a
How original are you?
Adam Grant is always a solid read. If you don't know his work, listen to this podcast. I just started re-reading his book Originals and a couple things stood out. One, that people who focus on achievement become less creative because they fear failure. And many icons including
How about a 36 month year?
We're four days until the end of a year we can't wait to say goodbye too. I bet
2020 gives new meaning to New Year's resolutions. While we can hate on this year
with all our might, it also gave us an opportunity to
The hustle is hard. Are you designed for cruising or for speed?
We're down to the home stretch of 2020. Based on what I see on the interwebs
most everyone can't wait for this year to end. Yet less I put a damper on the
joys of opening a brand new year, most all that made 2020 so