Principles
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy: Goals set retroactively after an activity, like shooting a blank wall and then drawing a bullseye around the holes you left, or picking a benchmark after you’ve invested
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
if you stop seeking appreciation & recognition for yourself and instead focus on elevating others, you will wind up getting more praise while needing it less, and it'll be a cleaner high
X. It’s what’s happening
Do my expectations match my level of effort? Make sure that they do, and if they don’t, adjust one to match the other
“What If?” is a terrible question to ask about your past, but an amazing question to ask about your future. Ask it often, and don’t be afraid of what you come up with.
A great lil story from the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure w
... See moreIf you can’t state that the opposing view on an issue as least as well as the people
supporting it, you’re not entitled to your own view
Get very good at being corrected without getting offended
Vicariously is a terrible way to live
