Farnam Street on Deliberate Practice

vutran | April 17, 2021, 12:17 p.m.

"Deliberate practice means practicing with a clear awareness of the specific components of a skill we’re aiming to improve and exactly how to improve them. Unlike regular practice, in which we work on a skill by repeating it again and again until it becomes almost mindless, deliberate practice is a laser-focused activity. It requires us to pay unwavering attention to what we’re doing at any given moment and whether it’s an improvement or not."

— Farnam Street on Deliberate Practice

Percy Bysshe Shelley on history and memories of man

vutran | April 15, 2021, 7:04 a.m.

“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.” 

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Emem Uko on the journey that matters

vutran | April 12, 2021, 8:30 p.m.

“It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.” 

— Emem Uko

James Clear on balancing time spending with peers

vutran | April 10, 2021, 12:04 p.m.

"It's almost always better to learn from peers who are 2 years ahead of you than mentors who are 20 years ahead of you.

Life evolves and most insights get outdated." 

— James Clear

James Clear on maintaining a margin of safety

vutran | April 9, 2021, 7:06 a.m.

"Maintain a margin of safety—even when it’s going well.

Rich people go bankrupt chasing even more wealth.

Fit people get injured chasing personal records.

Productive people become ineffective taking on too many projects.

Don’t let your ambition ruin your position." 

— James Clear

Eleanor Roosevelt on considering what you value most

vutran | April 3, 2021, 9:18 a.m.

"To be mature you have to realize what you value most.

It is extraordinary to discover that comparatively few people reach this level of maturity. They seem never to have paused to consider what has value for them. They spend great effort and sometimes make great sacrifices for values that, fundamentally, meet no real needs of their own. Perhaps they have imbibed the values of their particular profession or job, of their community or their neighbors, of their parents or family.

Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for."

— Eleanor Roosevelt on considering what you value most

Francis of Assisi on necessary, possible and impossible

vutran | April 3, 2021, 7:11 a.m.

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” 

— Francis of Assisi