I heard this idea - "a museletter" - on a podcast episode and it inspired me to adopt my own version. Here's my first collection of quotes I've read and listened to recently that have made me stop and reflect. More musings to come.
All characters are children, animals, or machines. Child: mature and grow up Animal: to become civilized Machine: thaw and become warm
Simplicity: Living Areas and Bedrooms with Joshua Becker (Bridgetown Audio Podcast) Idea from Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult: family canon.
Every family should have 40-60 books that shape the ethos of that family. These are the books that our family reads and re-reads and pass them down to our kids.
Stories are technology for transmitting cause-and-effect relationships within communities and through the generations.
Shame corrodes the part of us that believes we can be different.
The Hard Truth Of Poker — And Life: You’re Never ‘Due’ For Good Cards by Maria Konnikova (FiveThirtyEight)
For a long time, Lantz was a serious poker player. And one of the reasons he loves the game is that the probabilities are what they are: they don’t accommodate. Instead, they force you to confront the wrongness of your intuitions if you are to succeed. “Part of what I get out of a game is being confronted with reality in a way that is not accommodating to my incorrect preconceptions,” he says. The best games are the ones that challenge our misperceptions, rather than pandering to them in order to hook players.
Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system. That’s a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.
The way I approach the problem of multiple priorities is by focusing on just one main metric: my energy. I make choices that maximize my personal energy because that makes it easier to manage all of the other priorities.
That’s the plot twist. If you don’t have a twist, it’s not a story. It’s just a regurgitation of your day.
I was like a hunter who picks his forest location intelligently and waits in his blind for a buck to stroll by. The hunter still has to be lucky, but he manages his situation to increase his odds.
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