Weekly Highlights #48
The content we consume can consume us, if we are not mindful enough. In this period of information overload and analysis paralysis, The ‘Weekly Highlights’ collects the 3, most valuable pieces of content I have come across during the week, and packages them in a single page, with some notes and key highlights, so to foster mindful and intentional consumption of content, which can truly add value to our life.
Intentional content consumption, in an era in which the amount of content we expose ourselves to can consume us, if we are not mindful enough. 🐘
Here are some of the most resonating sentences from this article by Farnam Street.
“To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success, and admiration are earned. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another. And that is I say “I’m not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people do who are supporting it. I think that only when I reach that stage am I qualified to speak.” I don’t care what the cause — your child could be dying of cancer — self-pity is not going to improve the situation. You’ll be most successful where you’re most intensely interested. Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person. Don’t wallow.”
It was about one year ago when Kevin Kelly published his 68 bits of unsolicited advice. This is great, as far as I am concerned. The article version here.
All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. We must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal. But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life.
Quote of the Week
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens.”
This Week’s Article
The Practice and Science of Glutes Training
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