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Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
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#82Play iterated games. - Naval
All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
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#83Brute force is rarely the answer.
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#84A dirty mind is a joy forever.
My dad. I miss you.
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#85"Why do it right when you can do it twice?" I use it sarcastically when people want to hack things together so I don't think it counts as a motto.
I sometimes use: Why do today what can be put off until tomorrow?
I remember I really liked this one as a kid, and of course its corollary "don't put off until tomorrow what can be put off until the day after". And I still use this as part of my prioritisation - if something is not at all time sensitive, either act on it now, or let it go. Snoozing this stuff doesn't really help; if it's valuable it'll come back to your mind on its own.
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#86A decision is either easy, or it doesn't matter
I'm surprised by this one. What about things like marriage or a career change?
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#87"be the change you want to see in the world" - misattributed to Ghandi (can't remember if completely or heavily paraphrased).
It reminds me that there's usually nothing wrong with being an example as well as taking initiative. Be kind, do good.
Plus I share Ghandi's birthday.
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#88I always loved Frank Herbert's quote about fear in Dune:
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.”
In fact, this quote resonates with me so much that I've been using it as my desktop background for the past 8 years.
It also has been my experience with fears in the past years, especially with those fears that come with decisions that you have to make for yourself: Once you face those fears and permit them to pass over you (e.g. by being mindful about the emotions), you give yourself the possibility to learn and grow, and a lot of times you will find yourself in situations which you could not have imagined in the first place.
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#89"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
-- George Bernard Shaw
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