James Clear on change's incentives

vutran | June 7, 2020, 8:56 a.m.

"When people say they don’t want to change what they really mean is they don’t have an incentive to change.

Change the incentives and the behavior follows suit." 

— James Clear

— James Baldwin on change

vutran | June 7, 2020, 8:55 a.m.

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

— James Baldwin

Ambrose Bierce on speaking in angry

vutran | June 5, 2020, 6:11 p.m.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

—Ambrose Bierce

Martin Luther King Jr on the day our lives end

vutran | June 2, 2020, 6:05 p.m.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

James Clear on habits

vutran | May 31, 2020, 10:47 a.m.

"If you have good habits, time becomes your ally. All you need is patience."

— James Clear

James Clear on seeing opportunities other miss

vutran | May 31, 2020, 10:47 a.m.

How to see opportunities others miss:

1) Study a totally different field, then return to the original problem. Apply insights from other domains.

2) Invert the problem. Try to achieve the opposite.

3) Talk to hyper-creative people. Their thinking will rub off. 

— James Clear

James Clear on synthesizing ideas

vutran | May 31, 2020, 10:46 a.m.

"One form of originality is creation. Another form is synthesis.

People often focus so much on creating new ideas that they overlook the value of synthesizing ideas from different sources.

Innovation usually mean connecting previously unconnected concepts."

— James Clear