Shane Parrish Quotes

We optimize for short-term ego protection over long-term happiness.

If you look at the day, you will be focused. If you look at the decade, you will be exhausted.

we are all accustomed to believe that maps and reality are necessarily related, or that if they are not, we can make them so by altering reality.

if you find yourself biting your tongue in group situations, if you find yourself or your team resisting change or continuing to do something in one way simply because that’s how you’ve always done it in the past — be on your guard! The inertia default is likely at work.

Choosing the right exemplars helps create a repository of “good behavior.

The Five Whys is a method rooted in the behavior of children. Children instinctively think in first principles. Just like us, they want to understand what’s happening in the world. To do so, they intuitively break through the fog with a game some parents have come to dread, but which is exceptionally useful for identifying first principles: repeatedly asking “why?

The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem.

«A theory is part of empirical science if and only if it conflicts with possible experiences and is therefore in principle falsifiable by experience.»

So our first step in improving our outcomes is to train ourselves to identify the moments when judgment is called for in the first place, and pause to create space to think clearly.

Nếu bạn chờ đợi, cho đến khi bạn sẵn sàng, bạn sẽ phải chờ đến hết cuộc đời.

People who make non-consensus decisions don't have much time for company politics, pointless meetings, or people they don't respect.

I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.

business, the person with the fewest blind spots wins. Removing blind spots means we see, interact with, and move closer to understanding reality. We think better. And thinking better is about finding simple processes that help us work through problems from multiple dimensions and perspectives, allowing us to better choose solutions that fit what matters to us. The skill for finding the right solutions for the right problems is one form of wisdom.

the description of the thing is not the thing itself. The model is not reality. The abstraction is not the abstracted.

we can’t see what we aren’t looking for, and don’t notice what we don’t notice.