Completely ignoring efficiency probably doesn’t lead to a fulfilling life. But letting that efficiency urge drop occasionally, by punctuating our doing with idleness, challenges that faint but persistent sense that the moment we stop doing, our precious lives begin slipping away.
That belief, which has largely motivated my adult life, is starting to seem completely backwards. Maybe life is slipping away in every moment we’re afraid to stop doing stuff. After all, nothing detracts from the enjoyment of your life like a creeping fear that you’re doing it wrong.
I don’t want to think of idleness as another investment—time exchanged for more wellness. So instead of thinking of it as an activity, we can think of it as an insight worth remembering: the end of one activity doesn’t need to be the start of another. You can simply remain where you are for a bit, without setting a course.
– www.raptitude.com
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We lose strength twice as fast as we lose muscle – and we lose power much faster than strength, so as we age we lose a lot of fast twitch muscle fibers
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Over the last million years is the earth has experienced an ice age every hundred thousand years ago or so, the last one lasting from 75,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago, with twin peaks at about 70,000 years ago and 20,000 years ago
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Be super good at something and you may become passionate about it BUT there is no sense in becoming passionate or being passionate about something you’re absolutely no good at
Use your career as a startup you cannot sell – become very good at rare and valuable skills and use those skills to gain money to develop further autonomy, mastery and purpose
This is not a dress rehearsal for life – this is life
The more options you have the better
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30 linear steps equals 30
30 exponential steps (doubling each time) equals 1 billion
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Caloric consumption inhibits melatonin production
Melatonin inhibits insulin release
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For deep work to carry significance we must be able to simply explain its grand mission
Some things exist in our shared imagination; the collective human consciousness
Wayne Dyer says, “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is rather than as you think it should be.”
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Hope is not a strategy luck is not a factor fear is not an option
Rick Rubin was told many times that he couldn’t work on diverse kinds of music
The only consistent thing is change
The concept of the self is itself an illusion
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Even with his crazy schedule, Elon musk unwinds with video games
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun – Audrey Hepburn