“The reason the journalists said, ‘Were you nervous?,’ is because they would be nervous. Athletes would never say that to each other.”
How to Reframe Your Nervousness as Excitement
10 Mac Tricks You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
“If you hold down shift, option, and then click your volume keys you can move the volume slider in increments of one quarter.”
The Mistake Amateurs Make That Pros Don’t
When amateurs meet, they don’t edge each other out by being slightly more skillful. Instead, it’s a contest of who makes the fewest huge, gaping blunders. Amateurs constantly make egregious point- and game-losing mistakes, of the sort that pros no longer make. The outcome is decided by who makes the fewest — or least catastrophic — such mistakes.”
How to Quit Your Job and Change Your Life
“Every one of you can forge a life so idiosyncratic that it’d be silly to compare yourself to someone else.”
How to Overcome Your Resistance to Committing to a Single Niche
Being top 20% in 3 different areas, make you top 1% in the combination. But, that’s true for any combination of 3 skills. So, show me that there’s a demand for that combination.”
A 10-Step System to Learn Anything
“Acquiring information is not learning. You can’t learn to write novels, ride a bike, wrestle, fill out spreadsheets, or write Java code by reading textbooks. Textbooks can help, but they only work when combined with practice.”
The Four Kinds of Side Businesses You Can Start
“The biggest key to successful side hustles that I’ve seen? Understanding that you’re not starting a startup. Get this idea out of your head.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Only the ideas that we really live have value.” — Hermann Hesse
How To Tell The 11 Excuses That Hold You Back To F- Off
The biggest challenge in life is to get out of our own way.
Fears, insecurities, and doubts inspire the excuses we use to hide from going after what we want.
We tell ourselves things that aren’t true and allow those stories to hold us back.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Why You Should Make Useless Things
“That’s the true beauty of making useless things — it’s this acknowledgment that you don’t always know what the answer is. And it turns off that voice in your head that tells you that you know exactly how the world works.”