Hypothetical: imagine that all the media—news articles, TV shows, podcast episodes—that you consumed this week was instead experienced two months from now. How much of what you consume will have no relevance or impact on you in two months? What is timeless?
Author Archives: John
Advice
All is true; none is true.
No advice works for everyone. All advice works for at least one person.
What Will Last
The best predictor for what will last in the future is what had lasted in the past.
Buying
If you want to buy something, wait a week. If you want to buy it the next week, wait another week.
If you still want to buy it the week after that, buy it.
Some desires may fade, and that’s just as good as having spent for it.
The Brain’s Potential
What if I worked on every work assignment like it was a timed final exam in school?
How much time would I reclaim? How would my priorities shift?
The Best Book
The best book is the one you will absolutely devour. A love for reading is critical and should be cultivated at all costs. So read any book— romance novel, young adult literature, textbook — that gets you reading more.
I often start and discard books quickly. For a long time, I thought this was bad. My flawed solution: stop reading books altogether. How short-sighted.
Now I see it simply as an issue of match fit. When you read the right thing at the right time, you’ll read the whole thing. To get there, sampling may be better than forcing yourself to read every page of something that will just diminish your love of reading. The best book is the one you read.
Compound Interest Of Life
Difficult decisions lead to an easy life.
Easy decisions lead to a hard life.
Self-Conflict
Address and resolve self-conflict at all costs.
We are hurt when a person spews a mean comment at us. But we are destroyed when we believe and repeat that comment thousands of times to ourselves.
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