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 manif… - Shane Parrish

Techniques for establishing first principles If we never learn to take something apart, test our assumptions about it, and reconstruct it, we end up bound by what other people tell us — trapped in the way things have always been done. When the environment changes, we just continue as if things were the same, making costly mistakes along the way.

we make repeated choices in life that become habits, those habits determine our paths, and those paths determine our outcomes.

When you’re impatient with results, every day feels expensive. When you’re impatient with effort, every day feels like progress.