James Clear on motion and busyness

vutran | June 7, 2020, 8:57 a.m.

"Motion does not equal action. Busyness does not equal effectiveness." 

— James Clear

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