Brain Food – No. 530 – June 25, 2023
Timeless ideas and insights for life. (Read the archives).
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On restraining overconfidence:
“One way to restrain our tendency toward overconfidence is to habitually position ourselves in such a way that renders a prediction of the future unnecessary. You might not know with certainty when the 100-year flood is coming, but you do know with certainty it will come. And that means you should leave yourself positioned accordingly. The purpose of positioning is to make prediction unnecessary. You are prepared, or you are not. The argument for not preparing is one of efficiency. It’s more efficient to only prepare when you need to. Being prepared all the time carries a cost. Overconfidence lulls you into a false sense of security about the future and ensures your position is weakest at the very moment you need it to be strongest. When the storm comes, it won’t give you a warning.”
— Source
Insight
“If the hero or heroine didn’t have a flaw, it wouldn’t be tragic because it wouldn’t ‘mean’ anything. It would just be bad luck.”
— Phyllis Rose
Tiny Thought
The best response is often, “You might be right.”
The next time someone disagrees with you or criticizes you, just shrug your shoulders and say, ‘you might be right,’ and watch the energy change.
If you care about the outcome, focus on what’s right, not who is right.
Keep the goal in mind.
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A great deal of patience is needed to go from bad to good.
“I think it’s shocking every time how bad things can be on their way to being good. It blows my mind. It’s like when someone’s solving a Rubik’s Cube, and it looks like they’re so far from solving it right before they solve it. When you’re in the middle of something—you listen to it, and you’re like, ‘tomorrow, this might get amazing, but today, it’s so bad.’ The exciting thing is that it’s every time.”
— Source (Podcast with Rick Ruben and Finneas)
All the time you spend in a bad mood comes at the expense of something else.
“I generally try to avoid people and situations that put me in bad moods, which is good advice whether you care about productivity or not.”
Cheers,
— Shane
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