Author: Josh Terry
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TIME TO GET TO WORK
If you need to get things done and you’re having trouble getting started it’s often because you aren’t giving yourself enough silence. If you’re constantly scrolling and unproductive it’s not because you’re lazy or overworked. It’s because you’re overstimulated, afraid of your own mind, and undisciplined. And you have to be willing to shut down…
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INTROVERTS LOVE PEOPLE
Being an introvert doesn’t mean you dislike people. Being an introvert doesn’t mean you fear people. It simply means that you tend to recharge and get energized by spending time alone. Disliking people is a problem that you can learn to solve through understanding the complexity of other people, working through your own issues, and…
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NEGOTIATION AND BEING RIGHT
If you want someone to come over to your point of view, then telling them the unvarnished truth will feel like a sword of justice in your hand. But it might not get you the result you want. There’s a difference between being right and getting something done. If you really care about a person…
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IF YOU’RE ON TOP
If you’re on top try to enjoy it. It’s an illusion that you can stay on top of the universe for very long. We generally like to think of ourselves as building personal strength and external investments ever larger and more powerful, becoming ever more capable, and less and less at risk. But things change…
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POWER IS HUMAN
The idea that power corrupts is fundamentally anti-human. Power is the capability to think something into reality. Humans are human because they’re the most capable of turning their thoughts into actions. They’re the most powerful. And to believe that power will make you evil is to believe that you will become twisted and broken by…
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MAKE YOUR LOWS NOT SO LOW
Stop figuring out how to make your highs higher and start making your lows not so low. Big wins are exciting. But the biggest wins come from avoiding situations that take you out and doing work that build on itself. So you need to optimize for the ability to play the game of life without…
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YOU’RE NOT BORED ENOUGH
If you’re having trouble getting anything done it might be because you’re not bored enough. It’s really popular to believe in using will power to accomplish big things. But you also can just let yourself get so bored that you can’t stand not doing what you want to do. We never give ourselves the opportunity…
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BELIEVING IT’S ENOUGH
If you have something simple or easy that you know will improve your life, but you’re distracted by other stuff your brain thinks is more important, it’s because you’re in scarcity. You don’t believe that the task ahead of you is enough. Even though you know it’s important, it also feels like a risk. And…
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SACRIFICE IS REAL
What you want comes at a cost. This isn’t some fuzzy concept of spiritual sacrifice applied in a metaphorical way. This is real and based in the laws of physics. It’s based in the first law of motion that says an object will move in the same direction until force is applied to change that…
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NORMALIZE BEING DELIGHTED
Normalize being delighted and amazed. We often feel miserable because we have gotten so used to everything good in our lives that we can’t even notice the good things. This happens because the human mind is designed to expend energy on problems and be as efficient as possible everywhere else. So you’re wired to look…