Shane Parrish Quotes

mental model is simply a representation of how something works.

Reacting without reasoning makes every situation worse. Whether big or small, these unforced errors consume significant time and energy just to get you back to where you were before.

Guarding your time isn't rude, it's how you get stuff done.

If you can't cut a meeting short, you're being nice to them but not kind to yourself.

Nice is what people want from you. Kind is what you owe yourself.

It’s only weeks or months later, when we’re spending massive amounts of time fixing our mistakes, that they start to increase their burden on us. Then we wonder why we have no time for family and friends and why we’re so consumed by things outside of our control.

In life and business, the person with the fewest blind spots wins.

Most people go through life assuming that they’re right … and that people who don’t see things their way are wrong.

The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained.

The only way to outperform if you’re doing undifferentiated work is to work harder than everyone else.

Action creates its own confidence.

Sometimes the market gives you a tiny opportunity.

Understanding is not enough However, understanding reality is not everything. The pursuit of understanding fuels meaning and adaptation, but this understanding, by itself, is not enough. Understanding only becomes useful when we adjust our behavior and actions accordingly

The most practical skill in life is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them. Anyone can do it when it’s easy, but most people drop out the minute it gets hard.

I don’t want to be a great problem solver. I want to avoid problems — prevent them from happening and doing it right from the beginning.

applied inversion. Here is a brief explanation of his process: Identify the problem Define your objective Identify the forces that support change towards your objective Identify the forces that impede change towards the objective Strategize a solution! This may involve both augmenting or adding to the forces in step 3, and reducing or eliminating the forces in step 4.

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