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The capacity to perform work — to shape the world and make our ideas manifest — is among the highest privileges of being human. Any capability so powerful is worth thinking deeply about.
work can provide opportunities for nearly every aspect of personal growth: learning, perspective, self-expression, self-affirmation, status and prestige, self-sufficiency, self-discovery, and making a positive impact on the world.
Most people defend the system as it exists, because change seems threatening. Change evokes fear, anxiety, overwhelm, and resistance.
Humans are designers. Our ability to create, to invent, to author new things is mysterious and audacious.
Everyone has the motive to author their own life. Most also have opportunities of one kind or another.
the ability to read is becoming a source of competitive advantage in the world.
In order to consume good ideas, first you have to consume many ideas. This is the fundamental flaw in the “information diet” advice from some productivity experts:
The ultimate purpose of productivity and self-improvement frameworks is thus to help you gain self-knowledge through the medium of practical lessons in getting shit done. At
