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Enrico Bertini on deepening understanding helps in intepreting the related phenomena

vutran | May 13, 2021, 12:51 p.m.

"The interpretation of a type of attribute, a given attribute is also depends on understanding at a deeper level the real meaning of these attributes and how they relate to the phenomena or objects that they describe in the world."

— Enrico Bertini on Data Visualization

Amelia Barr on the difference between mediocrity and genius

vutran | May 12, 2021, 12:28 p.m.

“Everything good needs time. Don’t do work in a hurry. Go into details; it pays in every way. Time means power for your work. Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”

— Amelia Barr

James Clear on assigning meaning to our past

vutran | May 12, 2021, 12:27 p.m.

“The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful meaning to your past and it becomes easier to take a more useful action in the present.”

— James Clear

James Clear on ignoring things over attacking as an option

vutran | May 12, 2021, 12:27 p.m.

"Some things are better off ignored than attacked. Attention is the oxygen of conflict. When you fight a problem, you breathe life into it. When you starve a problem of your attention, you suffocate it. In a surprising number of cases, the way to solve a problem is to ignore it."

— James Clear

Lynn Marriott on productive practice

vutran | May 11, 2021, 7:56 p.m.

“If you can pay attention for only five minutes in practice, then take a break every five minutes. If you can pay attention for only twenty balls, don’t hit fifty.

To be able to practice longer and maintain the quality of the practice, train yourself to pay attention for longer periods of time….Productive practice is about how present you can stay with your intention and is measured in the quality of the experience as opposed to the quantity of time used.”

— Lynn Marriott in The Game Before the Game

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