i keep coming back to this essay by Nat Eliason "create proof you can do hard things"

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the

Call me old fashioned, but I think you can get pretty far in life by just finishing things. The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, and half-kept promises. You stand out by closing loops. By doing what you said you’d do. By having the courage to finish.

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

i routinely write “no hurry, no pause” at the top of my notebooks as a daily reminder. you can get 95% of the results you want by calmly putting one foot in front of the other. one former navy seal friend once texted me a principle used in their training: “slow is smooth.

Nobody tells you this: Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. It’s the dopamine from reading, planning, or learning, but never doing. Stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Get your dopamine from action.

NEW blog post is up! The Self-Help Trap: What 20+ Years of “Optimizing” Has Taught Me The older I get, the more I think that self-help can be a trap. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. I say this after ~20 years of writing self-help and a lifetime of consuming it.

this is my favorite thing Tim has written in 10+ years! fellow self improvers, read this I noticed what Tim is describing the first time I went to a tony robbins event. I loved it. But talking to ppl who had gone 3+ times, I noticed a trap: they got addicted to the medicine

As a generalist, specialize in people.

My grandfather told me this: You'll achieve much more by being consistently reliable than by being occasionally extraordinary. Damn was he right. Showing up is the key to life. You can never bet against the person who just keeps showing up.

Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, has a $10 plaque behind his desk that reads: "If we're all going to eat, someone has to sell." Of all the things this man could surround himself with, he chose a cheap plaque with a blunt truth about business. "You're always selling. You're

The ability to quickly reset and recover. From a bad interaction. From a bad day. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. You can start over whenever you want. You can't always control what happened, but you can control how long you carry it.

Cortisol from exercising suppresses the subsequent cortisol response to a stressor. Exercise before doing something stressful.

The architecture of enthusiasm is fundamentally misaligned with the architecture of time, this is why every ambitious person has a graveyard of perfect plans that died on day 3. It's because they were peak plans. Plans that only work if you stay at the emotional altitude where

Charlie Munger: "It’s probably a natural part of the modern economic system that the old moats stop working." 2020 Daily Journal AGM AI eliminating or reducing the effectiveness of some moats is inevitable. New moats being created in an AI era is also inevitable.

Charlie Munger: "The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses. When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else—they fail. In technology that is often the case." "Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.” “

Charlie Munger: "The business world is very much like the physical world, where all the animals die in the course of improving all the species... practically everything dies in business. None of the eminence lasts forever. Once I understood that better, it made me a better

excellence is the repetition of the same mundane actions over and over until they pile on top of each other enough to reach criticality. beyond that, the difficulty of the action remains the same, but it is qualitatively different—it’s magnitudes more sophisticated. that’s why

Life pro tip. Not enough people talk about this. The secret to having a "fulfilling" life is doing new things. Radically doing new things. Consistently. Every day. New activities, people, goals, even something as simple as trying new foods. Life feels longer when you're a kid

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten