1) "cynics get to be right, optimist get to be rich"

• its better to have a worldview that is delusionary but beneficial, than accurate but stale.

• if you are going to be wrong majority of the times, why not be wrong in a way which benefits you.

• you are better off aiming for the moon and falling short among the stars, than of not launching at all.

2) operationalising emotions

• Operationalise emotion means setting an action cue after a sense emotion is felt to quickly mitigate the feeling.

• Frustration – cut out unessential tasks

• sadness - generate more options by mitigating ignorance

• anger - wait it out till water gets calm

• anxiety - prioritise available decisions

3) There is no utility in underestimating your opponents

• in which manner does it serve to perceive your opponent as weaker than you, what is the most that you get? Ego, at what cost? Complacency.

• you risk looking foolish if the opponent overdelivers and you underdeliver, and even if you win, you would have won with greater margin given you believed your opponent is stronger.

• be conservative when adjusting advantages and reasonable when disadvantages.

4) Learning isn’t a spectator sport

• intelligence - rate of learning

• learning - same condition, new behaviour

• if increased the rate at which you change your behaviour you can effectively be more intelligent.

• if I show you red card, and then slap you, and then show the red card again, and if you duck, that means you have learned, same condition, new behaviour.

• if I show you red card again and you don’t duck, or it takes more trials to duck, that effectively means you are stupid.

• life shows us red card daily in our life, and if you don’t change, then you are not as smart as you thought you were.

5) this is what hard feels like

• there is no alternative to the act of shoving the fucking coal, no productivity tactics are going to make you feel less shit for any less amount of time than what is demanded by the work. Work needs to be done.

• stop complaining about the results that you didn’t get for the work that you didn’t put in.

• people underestimate how much you can impact just by the sheer act of coming back at it, and chipping away every day.

• work works on you more than you work on it, no amount of work is wasted because one thing that is constant is you, and you change whilst outcomes might not.

6) You don’t have to ...

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