It’s Not About The Shark, by David Niven

Category: Mindset

Ideas I found interesting:

Imagine yourself as a seventeen-year old to look at things from a different prospective.

Einstein: I am a horse for single harness. Most people would have trouble living outside the limits placed by the judgement of others. It takes strength and sometimes requires a willingness to stay apart from your peers.

Do not limit yourself to what you already know. Do something unfamiliar today.

What if you actually watched the pot? Would the water ever boil? Don’t make the problem worse. Go for a walk and chill. Confinement confines problems.

We are more likely to stick to a challenge out of curiosity vs an incentive.

We overvalue speed in almost everything we are doing because we associate speed with effort. But hurrying wears us down.

A competition against yourself can help you look at things from multiple vantage points.

Make predictions about little things to question your own self-confidence. We become 38% more confident about the decision because we cannot undo it.

When you get past the first draft, you can see past the problem. We get more creative when the first impulse doesn’t work.

Being able to see the opposite opens up a world of new possibilities and original ideas. The power of seeing the opposite is seeing things noone can see, doing things that have never been done before, believing when everyone has given up.

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