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" "I've noticed a direct negative correlation between aliveness and envy. If someone works on things that make them feel alive behind their eyes, the envy towards other people melts and turns into joy.
George Mack is a British writer, advertising strategist, and entrepreneur renowned for viral essays and X threads on mental models, marketing psychology, and high agency—a proactive mindset of clear thinking, action bias, and shaping reality.
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The easiest way to increase my bias to action is to say to myself: “I’m not thinking small enough.” If you’re delaying eating an elephant, think of the smallest bite. If the elephant is too big, try an organ, if too big, try an individual cell, if too big, try an atom, if too big, try a proton, if too big, try a quark. You start with a few quarks on your plate, the 3 tiniest steps imaginable, and before you know it, you’ve got an elephant shaped stomach.
A good rule of thumb is to assume you’re always neglecting non-linear games. Think 10x more about these things than your minds default response: What city you live in, mattress, hiring a personal trainer, literally any form of hiring, dating app profile, how you introduce yourself, salary negotiations, how close you live to friends, what you want in a partner. You have to fight Parkinson’s law because you could do these tasks in minutes, which is why most people spend mere minutes on 1000x giga-decisions.
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