Lillian Hellman starting as hopes, end up as habits
vutran | March 30, 2021, 5:39 a.m.
“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”
— Lillian Hellman
Read More →Neal Stephenson on organizing life to get long, consecutive, uninterrupted time chunks
vutran | March 28, 2021, 8:40 a.m.
“If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. But as those chunks get separated and fragmented, my productivity as a novelist drops spectacularly. What replaces it? Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time, and that will, with luck, be read by many people, there is a bunch of e-mail messages that I have sent out to individual persons, and a few speeches given at various conferences.”
— Neal Stephenson
Read More →Noam Chomsky on seeking what is significant
vutran | March 28, 2021, 8:33 a.m.
"You can't expect somebody to become a biologist by giving them access to the Harvard University biology library and saying, "Just look through it." That will give them nothing. The internet is the same, except magnified enormously.
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The person who wins the Nobel Prize in biology is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for.
Cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track, that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and internet, or pencil and paper and books”
— Noam Chomsky
Read More →Adam Grant on how to elicit feedback:
vutran | March 28, 2021, 8:31 a.m.
"When people hesitate to give honest feedback on an idea, draft, or performance, I ask for a 0-10 score.
No one ever says 10. Then I ask how I can get closer to a 10.
It motivates them to start coaching me – and motivates me to be coachable. I want to learn how to close the gap."
— Adam Grant
Read More →James Clear on minutiae vs polish
vutran | March 28, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
“People who excel tend to obsess over the details.
People who struggle also tend to obsess over the details.
The difference is what details they focus on. Minutiae vs polish.
Most things don’t matter—but when it does, you want to get the details right.”
— James Clear
Read More →Dale Carnegie on happiness
vutran | March 27, 2021, 12:07 p.m.
“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
— Dale Carnegie
John Muir on the power of imagination
vutran | March 27, 2021, 12:06 p.m.
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
— John Muir
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