Here's the advice I wish I had heard when I started working on my book last year:
You're going to get depressed because your sense of self-competence is overly reliant on FAST RESULTS.
Writing newsletters, tweets, video scripts, those all earn you a sense of competence in… Show more
Here's the advice I wish I had heard when I started working on my book last year: You're going to get depressed because your sense of self-competence is overly reliant on FAST RESULTS. Writing newsletters, tweets, video scripts, those all earn you a sense of competence in… Show more
What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? Great, great question. In the world of writing, everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Really? Or they love to write books about how to write books, rather than actually writing . . . a book that might actually be about something. Bad advice is
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
While doing the reporting for my book, I read a postmortem from a successful startup founder. They said something along the lines of: “One of the best things that can happen to you is to achieve professional success when you’re young. That way you can learn that it does little to change your happiness.” For better or worse, achieving your goals sho
... See moreEvery • On the Value of Not Reaching Your Goals
I think high-performing people generally fall into this trap: we obsess about the external world while neglecting our internal world.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • on not disappointing myself
“which is that if I can do it, then it must be dumb. If I can do it, it’s not that hard. So everything I ever did that was like a big deal, I’d be like, oh well, I guess it’s not a big deal. I thought that would be a big deal, but it’s not because I could do it. So that means any idiot could do it, so on to the next thing that I think is hard. And
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