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Everyone is always doing their best. Given their situation, priorities, and awareness (the circumstances), people make choices. If we want to change how others respond, we need to change their circumstances and how they see their options.
Often, the things we want the most aren’t directly related to the things we need. In fact, they might be very similar to things we already have. Wants are fueled by stories, and stories come from culture and connection and marketing, not from our actual physical or spiritual needs.
Don’t play games you can’t win. If the deck is stacked against you, a smart option is to go to a different table and play with a different deck. The dominant system wants you to wait to get picked. It indoctrinates people, again and again, in accepting its hegemony and insight and wisdom, so that […]
One sort of delusion is believing that we’re smart and skilled simply because we got lucky. This perpetuates a cycle of bad decisions that just happened to lead to good outcomes, and causes people to confuse their wins with heard-earned skill. Often, when someone successful in one field (where they compounded an early lead) moves […]
Here’s a quick tactical riff about how we name things. It’s worth considering that: If you’ve got four initiatives going on, numbering or even lettering them can’t help but communicate a priority to others. Considering flavoring them instead. When there’s an orange, a blue and a pink project, we can see that they’re separate and […]
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These days, we hear much said on social media — surely too much — in favor of the “hustle culture” and the “grind mindset” (or, abbreviated for maximum efficiency, the “grindset”). Dedication to your work is to be admired, provided that the work itself is of value, but the more of a day’s hours you […]
Everyone is always doing their best. Given their situation, priorities, and awareness (the circumstances), people make choices. If we want to change how others respond, we need to change their circumstances and how they see their options.
“Early cookbooks were fit for kings,” writes Henry Notaker at The Atlantic. “The oldest published recipe collections” in the 15th and 16th centuries in Western Europe “emanated from the palaces of monarchs, princes, and grand señores.” Cookbooks were more than recipe collections—they were guides to court etiquette and sumptuous records of luxurious living. In ancient […]
Here’s a quick tactical riff about how we name things. It’s worth considering that: If you’ve got four initiatives going on, numbering or even lettering them can’t help but communicate a priority to others. Considering flavoring them instead. When there’s an orange, a blue and a pink project, we can see that they’re separate and […]
“May you live in interesting times,” goes the apocryphal but nevertheless much-invoked “Chinese curse.” Egon Schiele, born in the Austria-Hungary of 1890, certainly did live in interesting times, and his work, as featured in the new Great Art Explained video above, can look like the creations of a cursed man. That’s especially true of those […]
