Category: Thoughts
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What kind of story are you living?
I’ve always been obsessed with stories. As a precocious kid, I was obsessed with reading – they opened up portals (sometimes literally in those books) to worlds, ideas, and experiences I found unfathomable. After all, living in Saudi Arabia, I was stranded to my own devices. And so I’ve always tried to live my life…
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Culling is being actively minimalist
A while ago I had a quick thought on how I actively cull. If something is not adding value to me, it’s weighing me down. (A bit reductionist, but you get the jist). Here is a definition of minimalism: Wherein the subject is reduced to its necessary elements To me, culling is the actionable part…
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Focus on the big picture (morning routines are but a part of the puzzle)
What gives you a more significant result? Increasing 100% of something by 1%, or increasing 5% of something by 10%? Aka, improving the whole by 1%, or improving a small subset by 10%? (For those a bit slow with their math, 1% of 100% = 1, whereas 10% of 5% = 0.5). The answer is…
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You shouldn’t give up, but you should most definitely quit
I’m a big fan of quitting. And when I say big fan, I mean if they sold one of those giant foam fingers and had “#1 at quitting” on it, I would be first in line to get it. The single most precious commodity you have is time. And the singular best way to free…
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Beware someone’s view from the mountaintop
I’m an enormous fan of observing how successful people conduct themselves; there’s so much to learn from the patterns they display. With that said, there is one downside: the rules are different for those who have achieved success. Not only that, those people are often entirely oblivious to the reality that the rules have changed.…