Doing something different means you might underperform, but it also means you might change the game entirely. - Shane Parrish

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.

never say yes to something important without thinking it over for a day.

Yorke writes that “every act of perception is an attempt to impose order, to make sense of a chaotic universe. Storytelling, at one level, is a manifestation of this process.