Life Learnings

It’s hard to get to know someone and what they value online. Here’s a list of things I’m learning that hopefully gives you a sense of who I am.

The ‘purity’ of your motivators doesn’t matter as long as you’re motivated and you have good values
The best people are able to keep their standards extremely high for everything they do for long periods of time without letting in.
Strive to bring happiness to the world, and remember that when interacting with people.
Try to avoid over-stimulating yourself with too much media / music / etc. Keeping your status-quo on the lower end of stimulation helps you avoid addictive tendencies. But also don’t keep strict rules with these :)
Paying attention to how your self-talk changes your behavior can be a big productivity boost.
Everything is a skill, it’s just a matter of putting enough work into it to learn it.
In order to change the world, you must first know the world.
A relaxed mind is infinitely curious.

The hardest part about leadership is taking disparate signals and structuring them into a direction.
There’s no limit to willpower; there’s no quota for the day.
The people who are most successful are the best at learning to be content in difficult emotional states (boredom, loneliness, fatigue, uncertainty, stress, anxiety).
A job is training to weather the difficult emotional states felt in the domain area.
- Software → not getting frustrated by debugging
- PM → not getting frustrated when people don’t meet deadlines
- etc.
- Those who can deal with any difficult emotional state can learn to do anything.
You will never always feel incredible. Don’t over-optimize your life around feeling incredible, over-optimize your life to perform at your best no matter how you are feeling.
When you get distracted, it’s just you trying to escape from something hard.
Time management ⇒ pain management
Your ego is the source of why you compare yourself to others. Instead of thinking that you should be ‘better’ than someone, know they are there as a resource to help you get to their level. This perspective shift will make you immensely happier.