Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish

@ShaneAParrish

18 Tweets 90 reads Dec 01, 2022
A few ideas I can't stop thinking about:
β€œGo positive and go first, and be constant in doing it.”
β€” Peter Kaufman
"Define yourself by your effort, not your suffering."
β€” @JamesClear
β€œThe world is not driven by greed, it's driven by envy.”
β€” Charlie Munger
β€œI want to see your best work. I’m not interested in your new work.”
β€” Jerry Seinfeld
"A dumb thing about our minds is that we never look to reference points that make us feel good. We always look to reference points that make us feel crappy."
β€” @lauriesantos
"Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity."
β€” @awilkinson
"The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, 'I can do whatever I want today.'"
β€” @morganhousel
"What we desire makes us vulnerable."
β€” @RyanHoliday
"Nobody remembers your mistakes as much as you do."
β€” @IAmMarkManson
β€œThere is ecstasy in paying attention.”
β€” Anne Lamott
"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
β€” Maya Angelou
"Your entire life can change with one year of focused daily effort."
β€” @SahilBloom
"I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier."
– Henry Rollins
β€œIf you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.”
β€” Leslie Lamport
β€œIt is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."
β€” Charlie Munger
Question to Bill Belichick: "With all you have accomplished in your coaching career, what is left that you still want to accomplish?"
Belichick's answer: "I'd like to go out and have a good practice today. That would be at the top of the list right now."
In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
"Good writing is an illusion: what people call good writing is actually good thinking, and of course good thinkers are rare."
β€” @paulg
Positioning over predicting.
Put yourself in a position that allows you to prosper no matter the circumstances and you can always play offense.
β€” Peter Kaufman
β€œFaced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.”
β€” J.K. Galbraith
"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done."
β€” Steve Jobs

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