3 IDEAS FROM ME
I.
“Optimize for your desired lifestyle, not your desired title.”
II.
“Reflection requires stillness.
One cost of rushing from thing to thing is that you lose the space to think. Hard work matters, but nonstop motion often hides a quiet truth: you could have used your time better.
If you never pause, you confuse activity with effectiveness. Make time to think. Walk outside. Sit quietly. Create space. Then move again, but this time on purpose.”
III.
“Here's a rule I find useful:
You should attempt things that are difficult enough to guarantee some early embarrassment, but important enough that long-term regret is unlikely.
Trying something difficult will usually make you look foolish or inexperienced. That’s fine. That's the cost of learning.
But if it's important to you, then you'll work through the early failures and — even if things ultimately change shape or don't work out — you'll never regret going for it.”
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I.
The influential Roman poet, Horace, on getting started:
“Well begun is half done.”
Source: Epistles I (20 BC)
II.
Writer Virginia Woolf reminds us that agency is not in controlling what happens, but in working with what we have:
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
1 QUESTION FOR YOU
If you weren't allowed to complain about this thing anymore, what action would you have to take?
Until next week,
James Clear
Author of Atomic Habits
Cofounder of Authors Equity
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