Quotes About Perspective

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca

don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now?

What would this look like if it were easy? "This" could be anything. That morning, it was answering a laundry list of big questions. What would this look like if it were easy? is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It's easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you're not redlining, you're not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process.

18. Notice how I take "you" out of the sentence to avoid finger-pointing, even though it's implicit. "Normally, you make priorities clear" sounds like a backhanded insult. If this is a significant other, you can skip this formality, but never use "you always do X," which is just a fight starter.

No one is qualified to tell you how you experience the world." Vlad Zamfir

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."—Albert Einstein

A common rookie error that inexperienced leaders make is always agreeing with the last person they talked to; this takes a while to get past, though it becomes easy once you get exposed to enough people who contradict each other.

Esto se hace para que «no vuelvas a [las viejas creencias] a través de viejas fórmulas lingüísticas

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? I would not have a billboard, and I would take down every billboard that everybody else has put up.

Una de las principales convicciones que me limitaban a mí era:

No estoy programado para la felicidad», la cual reemplacé por: «La felicidad es mi estado natural».

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place.

Esto me choca, porque me parece una falta de diversidad en nuestra concepción sobre qué tipo de cosas debería hacer la gente.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: 'Is this the condition that I feared?'" —Seneca

To do original work: It's not necessary to know something nobody else knows. It is necessary to believe something few other people believe.

Idiota? Por supuesto [comerse solo una tarta gigante empalagosa sólo por que él la había hecho]. Creo que no se puede ser más idiota. Este es un ejemplo ridículo y a pequeñísima escala de lo que continuamente hace la gente a mayor escala con los trabajos: sufrimiento autoimpuesto que puede evitarse... ¿Qué tarta de queso te estás comiendo?

Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

Wait But Why? [written by Tim Urban] They have a chart of the weeks of your life. I have a wall chart of boxes representing every year of my life: ten years across and nine rows down. Then things are plotted on it, like average life expectancy in the U.S. I always thought it was kind of cool, because it puts time into a visual format, and I'm a visual person.

So they believe the trend makes no sense. But what makes no sense is their model of the world. That's what doesn't make sense. The world always makes sense.

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.

Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical

Feel good about really hearing those who disagree with you.