Farnam Street on luck on higher rise over deliberate practice
vutran | May 11, 2021, 7:49 p.m.
“If you’re aiming at expertise or just really good performance, deliberate practice will most likely get you there.
But the higher you rise, the more luck and randomness end up mattering. However much you engage in deliberate practice, you can’t control the chance events (good or bad) that dictate a great deal of life”
— Farnam Street
Steph Smith on actively designing life over getting busy
vutran | May 11, 2021, 12:58 p.m.
"How much of what you did today was simply due to inertia?
Never get so busy that you forget to actively design your life."
— Steph Smith
Read More →James Clear on taking action to increase your surface area for good luck
vutran | May 10, 2021, 7:26 a.m.
"You can increase your surface area for good luck by taking action.
The forager who explores widely will find lots of useless terrain, but is also more likely to stumble across a bountiful berry patch than the person who stays home.
Similarly, the person who works hard, pursues opportunity, and tries more things is more likely to stumble across a lucky break than the person who waits."
— James Clear
Andrew S. Grove on writing reports as medium of self-discipline
vutran | May 9, 2021, 9:35 a.m.
"Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not."
—Andrew S. Grove
Gandhi on living and learning
vutran | May 9, 2021, 9:33 a.m.
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Gandhi
William Gibson on the not very evenly distributed future
vutran | May 5, 2021, 8:43 p.m.
"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed."
— William Gibson
James Clear on lifestyle as a process
vutran | May 4, 2021, 8:53 a.m.
"New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.”
— James Clear
