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How to find your life’s purpose?
This Youtube video by author Daniel Pink perfectly explains how to find your life’s purpose. Notes:
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It Will Be Hard, Then It Will Be Easy
One common thing I’ve noticed about success—whether in business, sports, or career—is this: it will be hard for years, and then it gets easy. When I first started boxing, I was stiff and nervous. My muscles would tense up, so my punches lacked speed. There was no grace in my movement. During sparring, I’d last…
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Stop wanting something you’re not willing to work for
Excellent post from Chris Williamson.
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The right way to define wealth
Nassim Taleb’s The Bed of Procrustes has many nuggets of wisdom every time I read it. “Wealthy” is meaningless and has no robust absolute measure; use instead the subtractive measure “unwealth,” that is, the difference, at any point in time, between what you have and what you would like to have. Nassim Taleb, The Bed…
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Sometimes the best move is staying still
In business, sometimes the best move is staying still. The more you force the business to scale, the higher the chances of things going wrong. You’re already profitable as you are, but you feel tempted to expand because you see your competitors going hard. But is it really the right move? The more you scale,…
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Do what makes morning exciting and nights peaceful
You know you are in the right career when you wake up excited to do that thing. And if you sleep well at night after doing that thing the whole day, then it means that you did things the right way. Consider these two important metrics when choosing what to do with your life.
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Be impatient with action. Patient with results.
Separate action and outcome. Take action now with whatever it is you want to pursue. But just know that the outcome of that action might take time to actualize. That’s okay. Most “overnight” success took 10 years of grind. Trust the process. Don’t wait for the perfect plan or strategy. Just get started. And then…
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Real freedom requires restraint
Freedom usually means the ability to do whatever you want, wherever you want, however you want. But the more I think about freedom, the more I see that freedom has its trappings. When a person is free to do what he pleases, most likely he will engage in addictive lifestyles like substance abuse (alcohol, drugs,…
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Ignore things that don’t concern you
There’s s deluge of information today. Endless chatters about different problems happening all around the world. It is good to know. But you can only do so much. It is overwhelming to be fed with this much information. That’s why there is a mental health crisis. The solution is to ignore things that don’t concern…
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Would you desire something you don’t know exists?
Imagine living in a rural farm without internet. You are surrounded by fresh air and an abundance of food. Life is simple. Would you desire a Porsche? Would you even know what a Rolex is? Of course not. Desire is often shaped by exposure. The moment you move to the big city—where ads, influencers, and…
