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Pointing directs visual attention to the precise target. Calling retrieves the relevant rule from working memory. Together, they activate deliberate control.
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Shisa kanko, or “pointing and calling,” was formalized in Japanese railway manuals in 1913 as a safety practice.
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A physical finger point joined Japan’s call-and-response railway safety practice in the late 1920s.
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Giving yourself the feeling of a win before a positive behavior makes starting more likely.
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Pointing and calling shifts perception and action from automatic processing to deliberate attention, reducing errors when autopilot is unreliable.
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Point at the tempting behavior, say you will not do it, and state why that choice does not serve you.
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Build a habit by pointing at its cue, stating the action aloud, and naming the positive outcome that follows.
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In 1994, combining pointing and calling cut railway errors from 2.38 to 0.38 per 100 actions, an 84% reduction.
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Time does not heal relationship problems by itself. Avoiding hard conversations leaves them unresolved.
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Invest your time in actions that compound future value instead of spending it on immediate pleasure.
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Be present in your current season, including its uncertainty, struggle, joy, tension, and pain, instead of chasing the past.
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Status symbols offer fake, cheap freedom. Saving and investing provide the real thing.
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The same clock is ticking for everyone. You cannot stop time, but you can choose how to meet it.
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A future-oriented life may choose family nights, simple meals, old books, and difficult activities over novelty and instant gratification.
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Janet’s Law says each year feels faster with age because it becomes a smaller fraction of your life.
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A midlife crisis is driven less by vanity than by fear that certain doors, roads, and seasons are gone forever.
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Your choice is stark: impress who you used to be, or make your future self proud.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomI Think I'm Having a Reverse Midlife Crisis
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A midlife crisis chases experiences that impress your younger self. A reverse midlife crisis builds what your older self will value.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomI Think I'm Having a Reverse Midlife Crisis
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Mental clarity and readiness are stronger before demanding work when you have not eaten a substantial meal.
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Detachment means stepping back from the situation and your emotions to see more possibilities and better courses of action.
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Motivation is temporary emotion, so consistent action cannot depend on it.
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Panicking on the radio spreads panic, invites mockery, and damages the credibility of the person speaking.
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After failure, acknowledge the pain, own your responsibility, identify lessons, and turn the team toward corrective action.
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When everyone else is locked onto the immediate task, step back, scan the whole scene, and make the needed call.
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Performing well creates more autonomy later. Today’s actions can improve your control for years.
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Lift your chin, lower your hands, and stop carrying the physical stance of someone ready to fight.
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After a successful operation, acknowledge the win, then restore discipline through debriefing, gear maintenance, and honest review.
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A strong sense of self grows when you become comfortable being different, resist conformity, and question authority respectfully.
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Positive action generates energy when you move toward what scares or challenges you instead of waiting for motivation.
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Turn setbacks into progress by identifying exactly what qualification, capability, or step the next outcome requires.
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In a tense meeting, step back, slow your breathing, widen your visual field, and create emotional space before responding.
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Talk less and listen harder. Other people's plans reveal their weaknesses and gaps when you stop filling the silence.
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When the alarm rings, eliminate negotiation and move immediately. Routine becomes stronger when motivation is irrelevant.
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Expand your adjacent possible through three levers: skills, network, and environment.
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Build skills that stack. Unique combinations increase your potential to create value at scale.
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Every action you take changes what can happen next by creating new skills, connections, and environments.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomStop Making a 5 Year Plan (Do This Instead)
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Enter a bigger pond, even when uncomfortable. Your environment shapes beliefs about the world and your potential.
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Skills, relationships, and environments expand possibility without revealing which one will transform your life.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomStop Making a 5 Year Plan (Do This Instead)
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The more unsatisfying your path becomes, the less useful conventional planning becomes for escaping it.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomStop Making a 5 Year Plan (Do This Instead)
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New skills, relationships, and experiences compound by multiplying your potential futures instead of merely adding options.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomStop Making a 5 Year Plan (Do This Instead)
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Your most interesting, asymmetric, singular futures are invisible before their necessary raw material exists.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomStop Making a 5 Year Plan (Do This Instead)
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You do not need a map. Take the next step while expanding your skills, relationships, and environments.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomStop Making a 5 Year Plan (Do This Instead)
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Stop planning the perfect long-term path. Build a wider, higher-quality set of possible futures instead.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomStop Making a 5 Year Plan (Do This Instead)
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Christopher Nolan draws inspiration from reading short stories, letting unexpected ideas enter his creative process.
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Christopher Nolan’s fascination with cameras shaped his nonlinear filmmaking, portraying time beyond ordinary human perception.
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Christopher Nolan identifies as a craftsman rather than an artist, putting the making ahead of artistic status.
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Convenient technologies become dangerous when they train people to outsource their thinking and navigation.
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Christopher Nolan began the core idea for Inception at about sixteen, then spent roughly two decades making it.
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Christopher Nolan placed his home and production facility back to back, reducing his commute to less than one minute.
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Christopher Nolan’s rejection from film school redirected his effort toward developing Memento instead of ending his pursuit.
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The greatest thrill is making work that envelops an audience as completely as it enveloped its creator.
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Constraints focus creative work. Rules prescribe obedience, while freedom begins when conventions stop being binding.
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Doing the best possible work with today’s opportunities can create future opportunities you could never predict.
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Constraints breed resourcefulness, and resourcefulness protects creative control by reducing opportunities for outside interference.
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After exhausting school days, Christopher Nolan stayed awake in the dark listening to film scores.
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Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Alien showed Christopher Nolan that one director can unite radically different films.
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Persistent execution beats favorable conditions: continue despite bad weather, and make that commitment visible to the team.
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Christopher Nolan refuses a second unit and shoots every frame himself on his films.
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Christopher Nolan avoids email and smartphones, using a flip phone and an assistant before meeting people in person.
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Christopher Nolan shot his first film only on weekends for almost a year, affording just 10 to 15 minutes weekly.
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Only 20 of Dunkirk’s more than 600 crew members could read its individually watermarked script.
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Inception took 23 years, incorporating Nolan’s adolescence, university, Hollywood career, later success, and fatherhood.
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Listening is not simply hearing. It is the mental process of extracting meaning from sound.
TED5 ways to listen better | Julian Treasure | TED
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Your auditory system notices change and discounts constant sounds, making continuous background noise fade from awareness.
TED5 ways to listen better | Julian Treasure | TED
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Your brain uses pattern recognition to pull meaningful signals from noise, especially personally important sounds like your name.
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“Savoring” means deliberately attending to ordinary household sounds until their patterns and interest emerge.
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Noise, headphones, impatience, personal broadcasting, and sensationalist media make sustained, subtle listening harder.
TED5 ways to listen better | Julian Treasure | TED
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Listening improves when you hear a familiar partner’s words with the deliberate attention you would give them for the first time.
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Three minutes of silence each day can reset your auditory attention and restore sensitivity to quiet.
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Listening positions are adjustable attentional filters. Shift yours consciously to suit the situation and listen better.
TED5 ways to listen better | Julian Treasure | TED
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Try “the mixer”: identify and separate the distinct channels of sound within a noisy environment.
TED5 ways to listen better | Julian Treasure | TED
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Use RASA to communicate: Receive attention, Appreciate with brief acknowledgments, Summarize, and Ask questions.
TED5 ways to listen better | Julian Treasure | TED
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Personal timelines are invented abstractions that distort judgments about whether you are behind or too late.
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People construct life timelines by watching others, then turning those observations into rules for what they should achieve and when.
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Social media highlight reels turn curated achievements into a standard for judging your own progress and possibilities.
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You can change direction abruptly by deciding your current path has gone far enough.
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A 1994 study by Thomas Gilovich and Victoria Medvec found that action regrets fade faster than inaction regrets.
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You can know exactly what you want and still refuse it when commitment would expose unmistakable failure.
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To decide whether it is too late, compare your future age after acting with your future age after staying still.
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Time passes whether you act or not, and postponing your desired life does not preserve your current choice.
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Map reinvention on four quadrants: current and future life crossed with information and evidence.
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“Too late” is a myth. Your timeline is arbitrary, so reinvention has no required age or life stage.
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Reinvention often requires releasing people who supported you only while your usefulness served their interests.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomHow to Reinvent Your Life In 30 Days
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Reinvention feels frightening because your current life is fully familiar while your future life remains largely unknown.
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Feeling trapped in your career often means you are protecting past investments of time, money, energy, skills, and relationships.
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Write down the people, beliefs, mindsets, and habits holding you back. Consciously decide to cut their influence methodically.
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Heroic plans are premeditated failures. Make reinvention easy to start and obvious to repeat.
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You do not think, manifest, or dream your way into a new life. You act your way into it.
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Try “30 for 30”: spend 30 focused minutes each day for 30 straight days on one concrete reinvention action.
The Curiosity Chronicle with Sahil BloomHow to Reinvent Your Life In 30 Days
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Small experiments shrink reinvention fear by giving you both knowledge about the future and proof you can operate there.
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On a good day, ask yourself: would you buy this career or life path today if you did not already own it?
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A challenging physical side quest can organize your entire day, improving sleep, eating, movement, and momentum.
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Silence creates room for conversational depth. Filling every pause keeps interactions transactional and adversarial.
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Choose a physical race, competition, event, or adventure that frightens you slightly and compels you to act.
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The happiest people are difficult to rush because they preserve agency instead of surrendering to arbitrary timelines.
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Resist rushing through small daily moments, even when the stakes are trivial and nobody demands speed.
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The most valuable relationships bring peace without requiring a life free from inevitable storms.
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Practice slow rebellion: let others go first, greet workers, and look up from your phone.
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When a conversational pause feels unbearable, resist filling it and watch what the other person does with the space.
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A decision becomes right through the disciplined actions that follow it, not in isolation.
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Make the decision, then make it right through consistent daily follow-through instead of endlessly optimizing the choice.
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Personal traction and success are more likely in a controlled, orderly environment than in chaos.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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Experienced jiu-jitsu practitioners often understand the discipline less, because every new layer reveals another.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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Refusing to make negative comments is a deliberate way to avoid harm and resist social media’s negativity dynamics.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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Gunfights are often over before adrenaline builds, with decisions made almost immediately and the physiological aftermath arriving later.
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Cold exposure creates controlled high arousal, letting you practice distraction or staying present with intense sensations.
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Wingsuit BASE jumping demands slow progression. A common benchmark is roughly 200 skydives before wearing a wingsuit, often taking one or two years.
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A first non-tandem skydive typically begins around 13,000 feet above ground, or about 12,000 feet in Colorado.
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An FAA rigger packs and inspects the reserve parachute, including its canopy, lines, and automatic activation device.
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Extreme discomfort can function like an ice bath for mental and physical resilience.
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A steeply pitched wingsuit can reach approximately 120 miles per hour while flying face-first toward the ground.
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Wind tunnels expose tiny movements and instability through precise visual feedback that is difficult to perceive while skydiving.
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A genetic blood abnormality can make morphine ineffective for some people, requiring a different pain medication.
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You cannot know the true price of success before experience reveals what you did not know.
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Alcohol is a central-nervous-system depressant that generally pushes mood and thinking in a more negative direction.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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Social media could stop extraordinary careers, art, and music from being created, a threat judged worse than AI.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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Accepting that your thinking is distorted can create distance from destructive impulses and activate resistance instead of treating them as authentic.
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Choose the slightly harder option as often as possible, unless it needlessly harms or burdens someone else.
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Choose the harder option 100 times a day, and your daily behavior compounds into a materially different life.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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One self-control strategy: download a social-media app once a week, use it briefly, then delete it.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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Moving social media from your phone to a laptop made it clumsy enough to become less addictive.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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One screen-time experiment cut daily phone use from roughly four and a half hours to thirty minutes.
Andrew HubermanThe Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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Any interaction with someone pursuing independent interests is strategic: their choices advance objectives under uncertainty over time.
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Even interactions that look purely competitive often hide opportunities for cooperation and gains shared by both sides.
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A strong poker hand demands extracting the most from an opponent. A weak hand demands minimizing what you lose.
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Decide based on expected future consequences, not past time, effort, or money already spent.
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The sunk cost fallacy keeps people investing in failing choices even when every future investment is unfavorable.
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In a zero-sum game against a sophisticated opponent, minimax chooses the strategy that minimizes your worst possible loss.
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Poker teaches a hard truth about uncertainty: make the mathematically best decision available despite incomplete information.
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Break a trust-sensitive interaction into small repeated exchanges with verification, and a social dilemma can become cooperation.
Big Think3 game theory tactics, explained
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A meta-analysis of 50 studies involving over 11,000 people found optimists confronted stress instead of avoiding it.
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Passive optimism can look like patience while career, relationship, and health problems continue without appropriate action.
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Success means defining what matters personally and building your life around those priorities, not letting conventional achievement set the agenda.
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Passive optimism waits for circumstances to change. Active optimism believes things will work out and moves to make them happen.
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Active optimism expects things to work out, then does the work that makes that outcome more likely.
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Pessimists freeze because success seems impossible. Passive optimists freeze because they assume their intervention is unnecessary.
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Optimists treat rejection as temporary and specific, so they keep acting instead of turning one setback into a verdict on everything.
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Assume things will work out, then do the work required to make it true. That is how confidence grows under uncertainty.
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A liberal-arts university’s job is preparing democratic leaders who bridge polarization and lead people with opposing views.
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Teach structured dialogue to every high school student, before polarization hardens into a college habit.
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AI mental-health tools may expand access and early intervention, but students still question customization, energy costs, and human replacement.
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Managing people well means adapting expectations and structure. The same deadline can motivate one person and overwhelm another.
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Universities are American institutions with global reach, ultimately accountable to the American people.
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Social trust grows when people from very different backgrounds come together around a common goal.
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High-achieving students can collect reward after reward while never asking whether their lives feel full or happy.
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Institutional neutrality means universities and their leaders avoid policy positions unless those issues directly affect the university’s core function.
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Academic leadership lasts only when faculty candidates learn administrative responsibilities before they assume them.
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A clinical trial using hundreds of thousands of hours of data found benefits from an AI-powered therapist, especially for rural support.
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Dartmouth’s AI mental-health project remains experimental, with hundreds of students building the dialogues behind its responses.
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Title IX rules and grant-linked diversity requirements pushed universities toward particular ideological and administrative practices.
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Universities should explain their value, stay in dialogue with government, and resist unlawful actions without becoming partisan footballs.
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Test-optional admissions can hurt less-resourced students by making them less likely to submit scores that reveal their potential.
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Dartmouth found standardized-test performance predicted student success better than recommendation letters or grades.
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At Dartmouth, a student’s test performance relative to their high school’s average predicted success after accounting for practice and financial support.
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Dartmouth students ranked about two standard deviations above the mean in tolerance toward speakers on both the political right and left.
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Dartmouth climbed from the bottom 200-plus institutions in FIRE’s free-expression rankings to 35th the following year.
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Listeners tend to prefer rich, smooth, warm voices, and vocal timbre improves through training.
TEDHow to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
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Broadcasting your voice continuously and indiscriminately has a name: “sodcasting.”
TEDHow to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
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Honesty becomes constructive when paired with goodwill. Wishing someone well makes judgment harder to sustain.
TEDHow to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
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Complaining is viral misery. It spreads darkness instead of lightness.
TEDHow to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
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What if powerful speaking, conscious listening, and acoustically designed spaces made mutual understanding the norm?
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Powerful speech rests on HAIL: honesty, authenticity, integrity, and love.
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Gossip destroys trust. People reasonably expect anyone who gossips about others to gossip about them too.
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Call everything “awesome,” and genuinely extraordinary things become harder to describe accurately.
TEDHow to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
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Dogmatism turns opinions into supposed facts, transforming conversation into an assault of unearned certainty.
TEDHow to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
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Before important speaking, warm up with breathing, sighing, articulation, tongue rolls, and a high-to-low siren.
TEDHow to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
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Change pace, pitch, volume, and silence to change emphasis, excitement, and meaning.
TEDHow to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
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You can sound confident onstage even when you do not feel confident inside.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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Your inner speech gives instructions all day, so replace threatening messages with directions toward the outcome you want.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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Sit like a superhero: upright, open, smiling, and making stronger eye contact so confidence becomes visible.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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Define your desired outcome, write a supportive silent sentence into your script, and rehearse it under pressure.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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Confident energy and composure make audiences feel safer by reducing their need to monitor your nervousness.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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Video yourself before presenting to inspect volume, pauses, posture, eye contact, and whether your delivery feels authentic.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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Replace rushing with pauses at transitions and before emphasis, and cut verbal fillers that reveal nervousness.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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Replace “I must be perfect” with a rehearsed silent sentence about helping your audience.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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You cannot erase nervousness and perfectionism pathways. Build a more useful pathway and choose it repeatedly.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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A purpose-based silent sentence can override anxiety while shaking or sweating continue.
TEDx TalksHow to be confident (even if you’re not) | Montana von Fliss | TEDxBellevueWomen
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The “centenarian Olympics” turns longevity into concrete targets by asking what you want your body to do at one hundred.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Variable schedules reward responses on average rather than at a fixed point, keeping behavior steady because the next reward could arrive anytime.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Folding can feel like a non-win rather than a financial loss, reducing the emotional burden of losing.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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When highly matched teams play, one contingent event can make the winner look decisively better than the loser.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Poker luck makes players fixate on the bad card. Strong analysis asks whether earlier decisions prevented opponents from seeing it.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Do not claim credit when an unrelated acquisition rescues an investment thesis absent from your model.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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As the skill gap narrows, luck matters more because competitors have fewer decisive differences to exploit.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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A serious decision framework maps the tree, luck’s entry points, future outcomes, planned reactions, and lessons afterward.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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A newcomer is harder to read, yet unusual play can create an advantage by making opponents misclassify their hands.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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The longer feedback takes, the more room uncertainty gives self-serving bias to rewrite what happened.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Because decisions are not deterministic, probabilistic reasoning improves them by mapping possible outcomes and their likelihoods more accurately.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Several early successes can give poker players or fund managers durable belief in skill, making later evidence look like luck.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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One-on-one sports let losers blame an unfavorable style matchup instead of admitting an ability gap.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Decision-making works like driving: move fast on straightaways, slow down for curves, and identify those curves early.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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A good outcome can follow a good decision, an irrelevant decision, inevitability, or a bad decision that got lucky.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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A wealthy retiree losing substantial money in high-limit poker could still win overall through social life, learning, and enjoyment.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Judge every decision on two axes: was the process correct, and was the outcome correct?
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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In poker, a correct decision can still lose when subsequent cards run against it.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Pocket aces beat pocket fives roughly 80% of the time, yet pocket fives can still win that hand.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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A good decision can lose, and a bad decision can win. Outcome quality alone cannot prove decision quality.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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Judge a decision by its expected probability of success, not by the result of one attempt.
Peter Attia MD#60 – Annie Duke: How to improve decision making, learning, & apply ‘backcasting’ for future success
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After gaining status partly through chance, people often interpret that status as deserved and its privileges as natural.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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People respond more favorably to successful entrepreneurs who credit luck than to entrepreneurs who take personal credit.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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Successful leaders see their own hard work, not the equally hardworking people who failed. That is survivor bias.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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Noticing fortunate events makes people happier by making gratitude possible.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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People overestimate their share of fights and messes too, so this bias is not just about looking helpful.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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Success can hide the roads, schools, public services, clean environment, and inherited conditions that made it possible.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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Being born in Burundi, where gross national income per person is roughly $730 yearly, sharply constrains adult earnings.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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In a group experiment, a randomly assigned leader consistently received an extra cookie despite no greater aptitude or responsibility.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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People who explained a good event through their own qualities donated 25% less to charity than those crediting external factors.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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In many years, 40% of top-tier hockey players were born in the first quarter, versus 10% in the fourth.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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Multi-author papers reveal a bizarre math problem: authors’ contribution estimates add up to about 140%.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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A NASA astronaut simulation weighted skill 95% and luck 5%, yet selected astronauts averaged a luck score of 94.7.
VeritasiumWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
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Finding your work is a coevolutionary search: you change while exploring problems, and your future self changes the search.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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A project dismissed as a toy may already contain the essentials of a new idea, with scale still to come.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Great work depends on ability, interest, effort, and luck. Find where your ability and interest reinforce each other.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Ideas usually arrive during or shortly after recent work, even when you are not working at the moment.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Planning works when the goal is known in advance. Discovery cannot be scheduled when its important result is unknown.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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If you are ambitious, do not marry someone who treats your work as competition for attention.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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A new place, travel, or even a walk can dislodge your usual thinking and stimulate new ideas.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Your group is good enough when several colleagues surprise you and can do things you cannot.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Experience teaches you what not to worry about, separating consequential concerns from the noise.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Set up an office within walking distance and concentration can alternate with recovery automatically.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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To test whether a field fits you, notice whether you enjoy the tedious or intimidating work others avoid.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Copy openly and consciously, or imitation turns you into a vehicle for someone else’s assumptions.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Exponential growth looks flat at first, yet early investment can become so valuable that extraordinary initial effort is justified.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Great work becomes a tool for others, giving them ideas, questions, or structures to build on across fields.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Genuine interest resists status, fashion, fear, money, politics, preferences, and fraudulent authority, but following it still demands courage.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Expertise is not certainty. It is being puzzled about important things nobody else yet understands.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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The crucial insight in many major ideas lies in the question, not the eventual answer.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Great work rarely begins with a rigid plan. Work hard on exciting, ambitious projects and preserve room for discovery.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Original ideas emerge while building or understanding something slightly beyond your ability, not while chasing originality.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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Your strangest interests may be your edge: uncommon tastes fuel productivity and reveal opportunities everyone else overlooks.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work
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One strong signal of a promising direction is curiosity intense enough to bore most other people.
paulgraham.comHow to Do Great Work

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