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One idea that changed my life is stop believing that other people have changed their lives based on ideas. The only way of change is by habit.
> The only way of change is by habit. That’s a compelling idea. Maybe I’ll adopt it and get into a habit.
This succinct nugget of a concept which appears at the end of David Graeber’s magnum opus, Debt: The First 5000 Years, has completely transformed the way I look at and understand the world. It’s as if I was waiting all my life for that exact book.
This post is right from ChatGPT. Like, “tell me 50 life wisdoms which can be earned through time” or something. We arrived the end of internet as we know it. I hate this.
This post is right from ChatGPT. Like, “tell me 50 life wisdoms which can be earned through time” or something. We arrived the end of internet as we know it. I hate this.
It's a self-help blog post, they had the ChatGPT prose style down before ChatGPT existed. For all the people who are convinced that humans are just running on autocomplete, with this particular genre they may actually have a point.
This one is weird. First of all, competition can be very healthy and good for everyone. Sure, there's toxic games you can play in life, but anyone who's ever actually competed at something knows the difference.
> 9. Competition is for Losers This one is weird. First of all, competition can be very healthy and good for everyone. Sure, there's toxic games you can play in life, but anyone who's ever actually competed at something knows the difference.
We would all benefit from remembering this one > 23. Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
I have a hard time with this. I see the obvious examples of complex systems failing, but we also have so many other complex systems that sure have their shares of issues, but I am not sure we can mark as failed. For instance government constitutions are arguably complex, and formed from scratch. Or to stay in the tech sphere and look at the problem from the other end, is it possible to build anything that hasn't effe…
One idea that changed my life is stop believing that other people have changed their lives based on ideas. The only way of change is by habit.
I actually changed my mind based on some simple ideas. Carol Dweck wrote a book called Mindset, which talks about two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. The idea is super simple, and you don't even need to read the book to know what it is. But just knowing that idea changed my entire motivation to do things, and now I believe that even if I'm not talented at something, I can get surprisingly far. (for in…
One idea that changed my life is stop believing that other people have changed their lives based on ideas. The only way of change is by habit.
The idea is the trigger. Doing it, to achieve lasting change requires habit forming.
> 9. Competition is for Losers This one is weird. First of all, competition can be very healthy and good for everyone. Sure, there's toxic games you can play in life, but anyone who's ever actually competed at something knows the difference.
Is competition the best way, in all those cases we think it is? Or is it just the easiest, low-friction way for an individual to gain advantage? And not so much benefiting the collective. Are coopetition, collaboration, cross-pollination more advanced and sophisticated mechanisms of evolution? Maybe requiring higher levels of civilization than mankind can bring to the table right now.