feature or a bug?
how advantages can be disadvantages and strengths can be weaknesses
feature or a bug?
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outlook
The “thinking mind” is the part of the mind that seeks to make sense of the world; it analyses situations, imagines scenarios, evaluates solutions, and tells stories. It’s an inherent aspect of what makes us human. However, it’s limited by multiple cognitive bottlenecks.
The human mind has many limitations. For instance, our limited sensory capabili... See more
The human mind has many limitations. For instance, our limited sensory capabili... See more
Ness Labs • Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
“Contrary to popular belief, time does not heal, time does not fly, time does not do anything. Time has no consciousness. It does nothing for you. The key to happiness now is what you choose to do with your time right now. Are you, right now, making the most valuable use of your time? This moment is, after all, the time of your life. Your choices a... See more
Our cognitive apparatus is designed, at least in part, to sustain us in the long term rather than balm us in the near term.
Daniel H. Pink • The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
The ease of having an ambition is that it can be explained to others; the very disease of ambition is that it can be so easily explained to others. DAVID WHYTE
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
A 2018 study found that people typically pursue higher levels of education because they believe it will lead to more leisure time. But, in fact, more educated people tend to have less leisure time.13 They earn more money, but also work more hours. This upends their expectations and ends up having a net zero effect on overall happiness.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been ali
... See moreWe should accept that our brains are strange, delicate instruments that evade our direct commands and are perplexingly talented at warding off the very ideas that might save us or help us flourish.
The School of Life • How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)
You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.