Listen and silent are spelled with the same letters #anonymous…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *SB*

The Warm-Up: 

“One hundred billion people have walked this planet. Nearly eight billion of them are alive today. Each has a story, few have a microphone. Each has seen something different and thought something unique. Most know something you can’t fathom, and you have experienced stuff they wouldn’t believe. But so many behaviors are universal across generations and geographies. Circumstances change, but people’s reactions don’t. Technologies evolve, but insecurities, blind spots, and gullibility rarely does.” ~Morgan Housel, How People Think

The Core: 

“Do less. Do it now. And do it right.” ~Shane Parrish

“The less help you need, the more people are willing to help.” ~Orange Book

“Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~Isaac Asimov

“The right routine will feel like success on autopilot. The challenge is in establishing the routine.” ~@safakcf

“My grandma told me: ‘If you give a person too much too soon, they’ll fall in love with your hand and not your heart.’” ~Anonymous

“Taking classes in ‘entrepreneurship’ in college is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor.” ~Paul Graham

“Keep doing good even on days when your kindness is rewarded with pain. Don’t let other people’s flaws change you.” ~Samuel Otigba

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” ~Amos Tversky

“Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity.” ~Andrew Wilkinson [@awilkinson, Apr 26, 2021]

“Just like a low resting heart rate is the byproduct of intense exercise, low anxiety is the byproduct of intense self-examination.” ~Naval Ravikant

“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint.” ~Isaiah 40:31

“Good times plant the seeds of their destruction through complacency and leverage, and bad times plant the seeds of their turnaround through opportunity and panic-driven problem-solving.” ~Morgan Housel, How People Think

“The little things—the long baths, the page-turning novels, the quiet Saturday mornings, the stars, the ocean, the city lights—they were the big things all along.” ~Brianna Wiest, When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal

“That’s the real lesson from evolution: If you have a big number in the exponent slot you do not need extraordinary change to deliver extraordinary results. It’s not intuitive, but it’s so powerful.” ~Morgan Housel, How People Think

Last Set:

“You don’t need to be the smartest one in the room or the hardest worker on the team to prove your value. You just have to be more thoughtful than those who work harder and more dependable than those who think harder. We put our trust in people who are reliable and reflective.” ~Adam Grant

Food For Thought:

The latest Morgan Housel piece, How People Think, was one of the best I’ve read in a while…All the quotes below are sourced from the article.

“Probability is about nuance and gradation. But in the real world people pay attention to black and white.”

“The core here is that people think they want an accurate view of the future, but what they really crave is certainty.”

“A few questions everyone should ask themselves:

Which of my current views would I disagree with if I were born in a different country or generation?

What haven’t I experienced firsthand that leaves me naive to how something works?

What is a problem that I think only applies to other countries/industries/careers that will eventually impact me?

But they’re impossible to answer completely. So everyone’s a little bit blind to how the world works, and when they think they’re disagreeing with someone else they’re actually just uncovering an experience they haven’t had.”

One More for the Road:

“It’s hard to empathize with other people’s beliefs if they’ve experienced parts of the world you have not.

Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal wrote: ‘If I ask you in a questionnaire whether you are afraid of snakes, you might say no. If I throw a live snake in your lap and then ask if you’re afraid of snakes, you’ll probably say yes—if you ever talk to me again.’ The gap between how you feel as an outsider vs. how you feel when you’re experiencing something firsthand can be a mile wide.” ~Morgan Housel, How People Think

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