There’s a book “Obvious Adams” about the power of obviousness (Taylor does a good review of it here). The gist of the story is about a young man looking to start out in his career and he makes his career out of doing nothing but the obvious thing. The book is a quick read, but details "Adams'" stunning success as he goes from entry-level employee to executive - just by asking the obvious question, and doing the obvious thing. Where others would be ...
Archives for June 2021
Doubters Are Better Fuel Than Haters
It’s pretty common for people to rant online about their “haters.” They fuel their identity and work around proving these ‘haters’ wrong. There’s a level of narcissism about this. Thinking that people are spending their entire day not just passively thinking about you but actively hating on you. It might be the case - but often haters ar just people making critical feedback, asking questions. They might even have a good point. If you think ...
Common ≠ Normal
One the sneaky ways society lulls you into complacency is word f*ckery. Word f*ckery Using similar words to draw you into a state of complacency and confuse you into labeling yourself a certain way. Exhibit A: Using the word “normal” and "common” interchangeably. Society pretends they’re interchangeable. They’re not. Here’s what I mean: There are plenty of issues that people deal with that are common - it has nothing to do with whether ...
Skill Theming: How to Learn More Skills, Faster
Something I’ve been thinking about lately is skill theming. Learning a bunch of related skills at once as a way to systematically get outside your comfort zone and learn a ton of new things, and Hypothesis: You learn new skills faster and gain competency by theming similar complementary skills and stacking them together than trying to learn them individually. As I was reviewing my impossible list, I saw a bunch of things on there that had been on ...
