Simple but not easy is good reminder for almost anything in life. Only partially related, but another one I love is: you always have more time than you think, even though you don't have much time. Rarely do you ever need to act instantaneously, and even 30 seconds of thought often yields better results. This became very clear to me when I started dinghy sailing for the first time, where things seem to go wrong much faster than on a heavy keel boat, like the ones I learned on. I'd watch the best sailors at my club who seemed to move sluggishly, yet perfectly through tacks, jibes, etc and realized that in my effort to act fast, I'd introduce unnecessary error
This reminds me of some advice I’ve incorporated into my daily life that I read from a competitive “house of cards” builder. He said, “look and then move”. Very wise and applicable to most anything.
So much here that is true. Reading this during a break from gardening and cutting off dead wood from an apple tree in the autumn sun. My wife out with me pruning overgrown plants. Nowhere else I’d rather be right now.
Simple but not easy is good reminder for almost anything in life. Only partially related, but another one I love is: you always have more time than you think, even though you don't have much time. Rarely do you ever need to act instantaneously, and even 30 seconds of thought often yields better results. This became very clear to me when I started dinghy sailing for the first time, where things seem to go wrong much faster than on a heavy keel boat, like the ones I learned on. I'd watch the best sailors at my club who seemed to move sluggishly, yet perfectly through tacks, jibes, etc and realized that in my effort to act fast, I'd introduce unnecessary error
This reminds me of some advice I’ve incorporated into my daily life that I read from a competitive “house of cards” builder. He said, “look and then move”. Very wise and applicable to most anything.
So much here that is true. Reading this during a break from gardening and cutting off dead wood from an apple tree in the autumn sun. My wife out with me pruning overgrown plants. Nowhere else I’d rather be right now.
Its always the things that has been around that’s going to last long isn’t it? Wonderful read :)
Beautiful article.
I find it interesting how job opportunities that are quite recent, we expect will last.
Think of software development, which disrupted everything not long ago, and now is being disrupted itself.
Yet even in the span of modern history… it’s barely been around. Why did we expect this era would last?
Yep. I.e., see the Lindy Effect.
K.I.S.S. 🙌
I finally figured this out in my late 50s and wish we had been brave enough to drop everything earlier.