Kels

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A major cheat code in life: Being a pleasure to deal with. Kind when others aren’t. Calm when things go sideways. Reliable under pressure. Intelligence alone is overrated. Be someone who lightens the load for folks around them. People value people who make their lives easier.

[anu @anuatluru]

being able to do a lot of work on something and then trash it without looking back is a massively underrated skill in work and life

[Andy Galpin, PhD @DrAndyGalpin]

Lifespan vs. Strengthspan by the legendary @AFaigenbaum

https://t.co/aQK0PSaXWU

[Kels @kelsm994]

@drgurner @GolovkinTrader Are you able to share a few names? Would love to do some quiet research here, they're powerful.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

The confidence to know you can "figure it out" is some of the toughest stuff in the world to contain.

That kind of mindset will take you almost anywhere you want to go.

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

idk who needs to hear this but product design is closer to engineering and strategy than graphic design and brand

[Kels @kelsm994]

@mortenpx Faster

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

At a show on his Solo Tour, John Mayer confessed:

“I wait for most things to be over. I wait for this to be over to do the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and the next thing...”

To counter this tendency, he implemented a rule.

“Because I’ve realized, he said,

“Everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed: Done. Done. Done. The thing you hate that you have to do tomorrow will be over before you know it, and the thing you're looking forward to tomorrow will be over before you know it.”

“So I have a new rule in my life,” Mayer said, “and the rule is:

Never wish for less time.

Waiting for things to be over is just wishing for less time. Waiting for this to be over to get to the next thing—that's just wishing for less time.”

“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.'

I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out…”

Takeaway 1:

John's realization—that “everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed”—made me think of something that Dr. Anna Lembke writes about in her book Dopamine Nation:

“One of the most remarkable neuroscientific findings in the past century is that the brain processes pleasure and pain in the same place. Further, pleasure and pain work like opposite sides of a balance.”

“And one of the overriding rules governing this balance,” she said, “is that it wants to stay level…With any deviation from neutrality, the brain will work very hard to restore a level balance—what scientists call ‘homeostasis.’ … With any stimulus to one side, there will be a tip of an equal and opposite amount to the other side.”

Pain and pleasure, good days and bad days, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—everything leaves at the same speed.

Takeaway 2:

The brain’s tendency to think about the next thing is called “prospection.”

“Our brains were made for nexting,” the psychologist Daniel Gilbert writes in a chapter titled “Prospection” in his book Stumbling On Happiness.

“When researchers count the items that float along in the average person’s stream of consciousness, they find that about 12 percent of our daily thoughts are about the future.”

In other words, the average person spends 1 out of every 8 hours thinking about the next thing, “which is to say…each of us is a part-time resident of tomorrow.”

We are constantly nexting, Gilbert explains, because of “the illusion of foresight”—the illusion that “prospection can provide pleasure and prevent pain.”

The reality is that “the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.”

The reality is that (whether through the prospectiscope or in the present) everything—pain and pleasure, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—leaves at the same speed.

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“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.' ... I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out...” — John Mayer

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[Naval @naval]

You’re always making the best choice based on your current understanding.

Don’t try to change the choice - change the understanding.

[Kels @kelsm994]

@bodyodybyp This rings so true.
There's an app coming out early next week that really aligns with this value.
You can properly plan your workouts alongside your work & life schedule, plus get personalized insights from an AI Assistant.
https://t.co/rwIaOYWovm

[Kels @kelsm994]

@itsnataliamarie I couldn't agree more with this.
There's thisapp that makes scheduling your day-to-day activities and keeping track of your health super easy coming out early next week. I'd be curious on your thoughts.
https://t.co/rwIaOYWovm

[Kels @kelsm994]

@thisis_anam haha right!
I'm wondering if you would be interested, there's an app coming out this week https://t.co/rwIaOYWovm.
It integrates with your calendar so you can plan workouts either by yourself or with the help of an AI Assistant.

[Naval @naval]

We write things down, both to help us remember, and to help us forget.

[Guy Kawasaki @GuyKawasaki]

AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems https://t.co/zG214F2aMg

[Kels @kelsm994]

@JoshuaGilmer @ormanclark Haha facts

[Robby Wade @RobbyWade6]

1/8 "RIP [Insert Industry]" - We hear this almost every time new tech appears? Ironically we often experience the opposite. Follow me on this thread:

[Misha @mishacreator]

🚨 The @figma iPad app is finally here!

And have you seen that stunning icon? 😍

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

What offers immediate pleasure comes to seem like a distraction, an empty entertainment to help pass the time. Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"A happy person isn’t someone who’s happy all the time.

It’s someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don’t lose their innate peace."

@naval

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

"The mind should be kept independent of any thoughts that arise within it. If the mind depends upon anything, it has no sure haven."
​— The Diamond Sutra