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Mental Liquidity is a Superpower
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Essay of the week
Mental Liquidity is a Superpower — Society rewards consistent thinkers. People who do what they are told and hold on to the same ways of doing things are often considered the right fit for many roles. If you expect a different or adventurous life, you have to think beyond what is expected of you.
Process Thinking > Outcome Thinking: Goals Set The Direction — Systems Drive The Progress — Goals inspire us to work hard and make progress towards a significant result. However, goals alone are often a distraction from the process.
Insightful essays I read this week
In your own time: how to live for today the philosophical way — “Up till now, life has seemed an endless upward slope, with nothing but the distant horizon in view,” said one patient quoted by the psychotherapist Elliott Jaques…
When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight? — Have you ever been gripped by the suspicion that nothing is real? A student at Stevens Institute of Technology, where I teach, has endured feelings of unreality since childhood.
The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship — The simplest and most obvious force that forms and sustains friendships is time spent together. One study estimates that it takes spending 40 to 60 hours together within the first six weeks of meeting…
This Is How To Get People To Change: 5 Secrets From Research — Trying to help someone change can be sanity-straining. Even when people face serious health scares they often don’t do enough to alter their habits, like they’re stuck on some monorail track of doom.
James Clear on the difference between what you feel and do:
“You know yourself mostly by your thoughts. Everyone else in the world knows you only by your actions. Remember this when you feel misunderstood. You have to do or say something for others to know how you feel.”
Sam Altman on making the most of your one life:
“Life is not a dress rehearsal—this is probably it. Make it count. “Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled—few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway. Don’t do stuff that doesn’t make you happy (this happens most often when other people want you to do something). Don’t spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don’t like, and cut negative people out of your life…”
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To our common journey,
Until next week,
Be Epic!
Thomas