This reads like post of a teenager bragging about stuff they did - in a thinly veiled notion that it's about casting votes about the person they want to be. lol
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
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#22I think I heard a similar quote: "Don't practice what you don't want to become".
Sometimes trying to not be stupid is easier than trying to be smart. Maybe that's another quote I read from somewhere else.
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#23I think the author might be missing the point of the book. Nothing on that list anything to do with forming habits. I suppose the mentoring bullet point could be a habit, but it's bit vague.
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#24I feel like the author is moralizing something in order to make it more gratifying.
> firm believer that structure dictates behavior
So every action you take is a vote and structure dictates your behavior. This sounds oddly familiar.
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#25Our lives are not a democracy, they are dictatorships. You don’t have to “become” anything, you simply are what you are at any given moment, and that’s all you’ll ever be. Just try not to be someone that makes other people want to punch you in the mouth.
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#26Oh man this is such a perfect example of productivity porn. Every action you take isn’t a vote for the type of person you wish to become, it is a vote taken by the person you are.
I hate this mindset of “I am constantly working towards becoming someone else”. When do we spend time as the person we are? When do we enjoy the fruits of our labor? I feel like some people who take this mindset see their lives as being two distinct phases… the building/growth phase where you grind and learn and work non stop, and then a later phase that comes after where you enjoy what you built.
I don’t think life works like that, and you will burn yourself out if you do it. Life needs to be built and enjoyed together, through your whole life.
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#27Being born well helps too.
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#28This kind of content is better suited for LinkedIn. I'm not a machine. I need rest and recreation to function properly. I sometimes get sick or sleep poorly. I sometimes get bursts of inspiration. There's no telling what condition I'll be working with on a given day. But perhaps you're right. Perhaps I'm casting my vote against being some sigma grindset, 4 AM cold showers, audiobooks at 3X speed kind of guy. The othe…
Why would this perspective not be compatible with rest and relaxation?
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#29This reads like post of a teenager bragging about stuff they did - in a thinly veiled notion that it's about casting votes about the person they want to be. lol
No, it reads like a LinkedIn post trying to promote their personal brand.
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#30This sentiment has always made it through my brains like this:
"you are what you do"
..which evokes the deepest ontological question - does being doing?