Japapa condivide Cose #2
Il prossimo numero (8) sarà una serie di riflessioni sul viaggiare e scoprirsi, nel mentre vi lascio un po' di contenuti interessanti che ho consumato questo mese se non sapete cosa leggere :) cy@
🔖Contentuti che ho salvato
Simone Dassereto - Imparare più cose serve davvero?
Mark Manson - Love Is Not Enough
Paul Graham - Keep you identity small
101 things for my past self
How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area
Noah Kagan - Time management tips
Great brand lines
James Clear - Creativity is a process, not an event
Vox - Dopamine Explained
12 questions for life → sito interattivo, aiuta molto a riflettere sulla vita, capolavoro.
Read something Great - Timeless articles from the belly of the internet. Manually curated. Served 5 at a time.
More to that - The riddle of ambition
More to that - Interest-First Friendships
More to that - The illusion of control→ piccolo estratto:
”When I say that freedom is defined by “allowing life to be,” I don’t mean that you just sit there and do nothing. What I mean is that you direct your attention to the things you’re naturally curious about, and to express those curiosities in a way that doesn’t cause tension to arise. As a personal example, one of the reasons why I chose writing as my mode of expression is because I liked how it allowed me to focus on the work itself, rather than thirst for the attention of others. It was something that intrinsically motivated me, regardless of the praise or criticism that I’d receive for my pieces. All that is secondary to the craft itself, which I have grown to love.
And perhaps it’s that last word – love – that is the antidote to all this. Because love is not defined by how much control you have over the other, or how much power you have over the course of your relationship. No, love is when you allow whatever you have to “be,” and to dispel the illusion of control whenever it creeps in.
It is only in that state of total equanimity where true freedom can be felt.”
Do things, tell people.
It's conventional wisdom that focusing too much on work / ambition / wealth isn't the optimal way to live a happy life. Turns out there's an actual chemical explanation for why:
-“You don’t want to look like your heroes; you want to see like them.” -Austin Kleon
-"It's remarkable how often the real problem is not what happened, but how it was communicated."- James Clear
-"Three ways to learn something new:
Reflect on what you have already tried.
Attempt something you have not tried.
Read about what someone else has tried."
-James ClearMorgan Housel on measuring your results internally rather than externally:
"Would I be happy with this result if no one other than me and my family could see it, and I didn't compare the result to the appearance of other people's success?"
-Neil Gaiman on the source of improvement:
"You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."
“In your 20s, try everything. In your 30s, figure out what you do best. In your 40s, make money from what you do best, and try not to do too much in your 50s.”
-Paul Orfalea
“Non guardiamo più film o TV ma preferiamo i TikTok, le partite di calcio ci annoiano e ci accontentiamo ormai solo degli highlights, cercare l’anima gemella passa attraverso uno swipe su Tinder e la scarica di dopamina dopo un potenziale match è forse più gratificante della frequentazione stessa.
Insomma, ci siamo trasformati in vampiri assetati di notifiche. E rimuovere le spunte rosse dal cellulare è solo un palliativo.”
My Audience-First Business Model
Un estratto da “The sublime Newsletter”
Do you have clarity on what kind of financial value you aim to create?
Do you have enough savings to sustain yourself during a ramp up period? If it takes longer to ramp up, how will you gain financial security? Is your significant other on board? Will 1,000 fans paying $10 a month satisfy you? Is your goal to build a sustainable business or are you willing to spend 10 years building a business on a lottery chance to take it public? Are your financial goals truly yours or are they borrowed from somebody else?
I love this quote from marathoner Dick Collins: “Decide before the race the conditions that will cause you to stop and drop out. You don’t want to be out there saying, ‘Well gee, my leg hurts, I’m a little dehydrated, I’m sleepy, I’m tired, and it’s cold and windy.’ And talk yourself into quitting. If you are making a decision based on how you feel at that moment, you will probably make the wrong decision.”
Friend, I hope you can see that what will propel you to thrive has a little to do with your skills and a lot to do with your mind.
I hope you get to know your inner world. I hope you thrive financially while living your values. I hope you focus less on what you achieve and more on who you become. I hope you learn to be kind to yourself. I hope you fall in love with the process. I hope you see the point of pursuing passion work is not to drain yourself to create work that eclipses your life, but rather to create a life you are proud of. I hope this new venture takes you far away from conformism and enables you to make a life and a living on your own terms, with your spirit and creativity unhindered.
Sari
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Tools for Critical Thinking
"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them—especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. The fundamental reaction to any mistake ought to be this: “Well, I won’t do that again!”"
"More is missed by not looking than not knowing."
— Thomas McCrae, Medical School Axiom
100 simple truths
eccone alcune che mi son piaciute
-Being creative is just combining interest with initiative.
-Consuming information won't make you smart, applying it will.
-Inspiration is a productivity multiplier, but it’s perishable. Act quickly.
-Choose consistency over intensity, because consistency compounds.
-Creativity is an infinite resource—the more you spend, the more you have.
-Be interesting to others by being interested in them.
-If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
-Luck favors those in motion.
-How you do anything, is how you do everything.
-Your first impression isn’t your appearance, it’s your energy.
-Integrity is being the same person no matter the circumstance.
-Increase your rate of success by increasing your rate of failure
Dal libro The sovereign artist:
-”Measure wisdom in risks taken, and exposure to challenges, not years.
A young wolf is wiser than an old dog.
Angela Jiang came up with a great heuristic:
“Measure experience inexposure to shocks rather than years. By this measure, some of the young are old; some of the old are young; and some of the old are ancient.”
-”My reason is simply a greedy lawyer hired by my guilty instincts,
feelings, and values to prove them innocent. This lawyer is
responsible to conserve and protect my identity from sudden
changes. If I adjust my beliefs too quickly and too often—I risk
going insane. I’m open-minded only in the sense that my mind is
closed by openable windows.”
-”Don’t waste time worrying about missing opportunities. Worry
about not being in a place that attracts opportunities. If you are
at the wrong bus station—every bus is the wrong bus.”
-Are your goals your own, or what you believe you should want?
Are your dreams indeed authentic, or are they default ideals and
prepackaged narratives designed by Hollywood, corporate
advertising, and intensive social media sessions
-”You need silence to imagine a brighter future. Your mind
requires boredom to carve out a destiny for yourself.
In a world full of distractions, boredom is no longer a mere
“productivity hack”—it’s one of the highest virtues”
-”Energy is simply the by-product of courage. Lethargy is the
hint that somewhere, somehow, you made the coward’s
bargain. Great ambition appears out of nowhere in the face
of great risks and great tasks.”
-”Your “passion” emerges as a result of trial-and-error tinkering
rather than predetermined desire or choice.
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to aim at something.
Follow your curiosity and see what happen”
-Steven Pressfield came up with a great diagnosis: “The disease of
our times is that we live on the surface. Our knowledge is a
mile wide and an inch deep.”
-”A life of endless optionality is a life devoid of responsibility—
precisely what enables freedom. Freedom starts with optionality
and materializes with commitment.”
-”Dear student,"
As soon as you leave school, get ready to exchange obedience
with curiosity, logic with psychology, risk-management with
risk-taking, and, above all, lecture with adventure”
-“Desire is a contract you make with yourself,” Naval Ravikant
wrote, “to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
-The more you overthink a problem, the larger the debt your
actions have to pay.
Capitoli interessanti del libro che sto leggendo “Your music and people” di Derek Sivers:
Derek Sivers - “Marketing” just means being considerate.
Derek Sivers - Get Specific!
Derek Sivers - You don’t get extreme results without extreme actions.
Derek Sivers - Aim for the edges.
Derek Sivers - Proudly exclude most people.
Derek Sivers - Well-rounded doesn’t cut.
Derek Sivers - Selling music by solving a specific need
”Imagine two candlemakers.
One says, “My candles have only the finest wax with the best quality wick!”
The other says, “These are prayer candles. Light one whenever you pray.”
There are dozens of people who will buy the first.
But there are millions who will buy the second.”
Derek Sivers - People search harder for the obscure.
“Fans of the obscure niches search harder for it. Make sure they can find you.You want the passionate fans of your niche, not the casual fans of mainstream.”
Derek Sivers - Keep in touch
Derek Sivers- Every breakthrough comes from someone you know.
Derek Sivers- For each person you meet, think about how you can help them.
Derek Sivers - Shed your money taboos.
”Money is nothing more than a neutral exchange of value. If people give you money, it’s proof that you’re giving them something valuable in return.
Business is creative. You can do things any way you want. There’s no need to adhere to norms. Norms are for businesses without personality.
Pour your personality and philosophy into the way you do business. People actually appreciate it when you do things in a surprising way. It shows you care more than most — that you’re putting your self into this — that you’re not just in it for the money.”
Derek Sivers - Detailed dreams blind you to new means.
”You need to distinguish between what is your real goal, and what are the unnecessary details. Don’t let the details distract you from your goal.
For each of your dreams, occasionally ask yourself what the real point is. Then look for a better way to get to that point.
Let go of outdated dreams that keep you from noticing what’s here now.”
Derek Sivers - Compass in your gut
Dal libro “How to live”
Derek Sivers - How to live: Commit → Il mio contenuto preferito di Derek. MUST READ
Derek Sivers- Here’s how to live: Fill your senses.
Derek Sivers - Here’s how to live: Make memories.
Derek sivers - Here’s how to live: Intertwine with the world. (Probabilmente rileggerò questo capitolo per il prossimo JPP parla di cose)
If you want a successful network of connections, what matters is not how many people you know but how many different kinds of people you know.
Building relationships worldwide brings more opportunity, more variety, and more chance for circumstance.
Moving across the world makes you smarter, because you stop thinking you’re always right.
Those who shout, “my country is the best!” are those who have never left.
In Icelandic, the word for “idiot” means “one who has never left home to journey abroad”.
Only idiots think they’re always right.
You can’t see your own culture while you’re inside of it.
Once you get out and look back, you can see which parts of your personality actually come from your environment.
Traveling makes you better at communicating, since you can’t assume familiarity, and must speak simply and clearly.
You’ll get used to speaking with people of different religions, worldviews, and communication styles.
You’ll know when to be formal, when to joke, when to reference tradition, and when to swear.
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