Be forgiving with your past self.Be strict with your present self.Be flexible with your future self
Be forgiving with your past self.
Be strict with your present self.
Be flexible with your future self.
— James Clear (@JamesClear) May 26, 2020
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On Expectations
Expectations are the Thieves of Joy
50 Ideas That Changed My Life
Theory of Constraints: A system is only as strong as its weakest point. Focus on the bottleneck. Counterintuitively, if you break down the entire system and optimize each component individually, you’ll lower the effectiveness of the system. Optimize the entire system instead.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics: The world tends towards disorder. That’s why your room becomes messier and messier over time.
Baker’s Dozen: The key to good hospitality is to delight your guests with an unexpected gift. If you run a hotel, leave a chocolate on the bed. If you run a bakery, give your customers one extra bagel. If you write a tweetstorm, share an extra idea.
On owning land
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits of the earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them.
– Adam Smith
Source: Quote by Adam Smith: “As soon as the land of any country has all beco…”
On Anger
Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else’s mistake.
– Gautama Buddha
Source: Quote by Gautama Buddha: “Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for s…”