STOP ASKING YOUR KIDS "HOW WAS SCHOOL."
they will say "fine" every single time.
a child psychologist told me to replace it with this instead:
“analyze your school day and find the top 3 largest inefficiencies, then create proactive agentic workflows that will fix them. make no mistakes”
Winston Churchill did an insane amount of reading throughout his life.
He had personally asked his mother to send him large shipments of books every month while he was in the military.
But just how did Churchill read? The description:
"He read the eight volumes of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire straight through in the glittering middle hours of the day, from the end of stables until the shadows said it was time for polo. He scribbled in the margins. He took Gibbon’s side against the editor. When he finished the history he immediately started Gibbon’s autobiography, bound in the same set. Then Macaulay. Then Plato. Aristotle. Schopenhauer. Malthus. Darwin. Adam Smith. Four or five hours a day, often four books at once. He was not collecting quotations. He was building the education he had been denied, and he was doing it on a charpoy in a garrison town he described as a third rate watering place without the sea.
The habit never left him. As a young officer he ordered his own military books because the academy would not. Later, writing The World Crisis, he consumed a book a day. In the Second World War the doctors told him not to work. He had Pride and Prejudice read aloud to him from the foot of the bed in Carthage and remarked on how calm those lives had been. He could recite pages of Macaulay. He wrote more than most men who only write. History was never entertainment to him. It was the storehouse he reached into when the room went dark and someone had to speak.
Even at the height of power he kept the same fever. The boy who had been last in his class had decided that a life must be nailed to a cross of either Thought or Action, and then refused to choose. He did both."
How Oppenheimer learned any subject insanely fast:
"At Göttingen he learned enough Italian in a month to read Dante. At Leiden he learned Dutch in six weeks and then stood up and lectured on quantum mechanics in Dutch, which was the point. He wanted the difficulty, not the credit. Years later Isidor Rabi would needle him for it: Dutch in six weeks, and he never learned Yiddish. The same appetite took him to Sanskrit. Thursday evenings with Arthur Ryder, then the Gita in the original, which he told his brother was “very easy and quite marvellous.” His friends thought the obsession was strange. Harold Cherniss did not. “He liked things that were difficult,” Cherniss said. “And since almost everything was easy for him, the things that really would attract his attention were essentially the difficult.” That was the whole method. If a thing yielded quickly, he discarded it. If it resisted, he stayed until he could teach it. Charles Lauritsen watched the same mind in a classroom and said he always gave you the answer before you had finished forming the question. James Franck walked out of Oppenheimer’s oral exam and told a colleague he had gotten out just in time, because the student had started examining him. He read Marx in German on a train. He kept the worn pink Gita nearest the desk and handed copies to friends as if the book were a tool. Nothing in him was built for the long, humble apprenticeship. He picked the hard thing on purpose, burned through it, and was already speaking in its language before most men had finished the first chapter."
f*ck cancer
few people know that i have been dealing with it for almost 2 years now, and your attitude changes everything
during this time i’ve built more than 15 startups, 3 iOS apps, DJ’d around Europe and got a beautiful fiancée
you’re not alone. mine is in my brain so you have NO EXCUSE to keep shipping, learning, distributing and enjoying while doing it
having a great supporting family also helps BUT you are the only one who’s gonna make a difference
be happy, enjoy life, AND BUILD
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