I wrote down exactly who I want to be and what I want my life to look like. then I asked what does he do. how does he start his day. what does he eat. when does he sleep. how does he handle the hard conversations. what does his work look like. I wrote all of it down. then I just started doing it. you don't have to feel like him first. you act like him until you are him.
Five wasted years can be fixed by one focused one. The timeline feels unfair until you realize how fast discipline compounds. You are never as far behind as you think.
One idea that has revolutionized my thinking is this: you are allowed to not want things.
You can look at everything society tells you that you need to have and just be like, “Nope. I will not be participating.”
The highest-leverage human alive is the one with a sharp mind and zero hesitation. They think, then they move, then they learn from the impact, then they think again. Faster every loop.
In October 2006, Derek Amato dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool at a party in Colorado, hit his head on the concrete bottom, and woke up a pianist. He had never touched a piano in his life.
He was diagnosed with a severe concussion and lost 35% of his hearing and some of his memory.
Four days after the accident he sat down at a friend's piano and played complex, emotionally rich melodies for five hours straight.
He describes the experience as seeing black and white squares moving in a circular pattern in his mind, which guide his fingers across the keys.
“I just follow what the blocks tell me to do," he told CBS News.
He cannot read sheet music and cannot play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but can improvise beautiful original compositions on demand.
Doctors diagnosed him with acquired savant syndrome, a rare condition in which dormant abilities emerge after a brain injury. There are only around 50 well-documented cases globally.
He was named Independent Artist of the Year by the LA Association of Independent Artists in 2007, released his debut album Full Circle, and has given a TED Talk about his experience.
He has continued playing piano for nearly 20 years since the accident and says he would not change what happened to him.
The injury cost him his hearing. It gave him something he still cannot fully explain.
En Brasil hicieron un experimento bastante ingenioso con 120 personas para entender si REALMENTE la IA sirve para aprender
A la primera mitad le dieron acceso a inteligencia artificial para estudiar y a la otra la mandaron a estudiar a la antigua, con el apunte y el café.
Lo primero que descubrieron es que los que usaban la IA iban más rápido, terminaban antes y, encima, salían más confiados, convencidos de que la tenían clarísima. Hasta ahí parecía todo color de rosas, el sueño del estudiante.
Pero, sin avisarle a nadie, 45 días más tarde les tomaron un examen sorpresa y se cayó la careta: los de la IA sacaron 5,75 sobre 10 y los que habían estudiado a pulmón, sufriendo, 6,85. Perdieron justo los que la habían pasado mejor.
Esto pasa por algo que los científicos llaman "dificultad deseable" y tiene que ver con ese momento en el que estudiar se siente molesto, esa tortura en la que releés varias veces lo mismo hasta poder entenderlo. Ese es el momento exacto en el que tu cerebro solidifica el conocimiento de verdad y es justo lo que la inteligencia artificial elimina volviendo todo más fácil de leer.
Es como ir al gimnasio y que el entrenador levante las pesas por vos. Así que, si usás la IA para estudiar, recordá que es un complemento súper útil para debatir temas, ayudarte a ordenarlos y tomarte examen a vos mismo. Pero cuidado con usarla para que simplifique lo complejo.
I have no interest in being around people who assign malicious intent to every mistake. If grace is reserved for no one, not even the people in your life, I can only imagine how harshly you judge strangers
Just do more.
You will adapt. Your body will adapt. Your mind will adapt.
You can just simply do more and figure it out along the way. Most things in life simply bend to the virtue of volume. Everything is learnable, you are adaptable and the universe is endlessly malleable.