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5-Bullet Monday #217: Things I Found Cool this Week
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Happy Monday! What I'm sharing— The power of 15 minutes (and other ideas) by Oliver Burkeman: "(...) while you might choose to use a technique like this to build up to 20 minutes, then half an hour, then an hour, and so on, it’s also the case, from one perspective, that life is just one long sequence of 15-minute periods, stacked next to each other. In other words: you never have to do anything for more than 15 minutes! You may just sometimes have to string a few of them end-to-end." What I'm pondering— “If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!” — The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber (resurfaced using Readwise) What I'm reading— 20 Lessons From 20 Years of Managing Money by Ben Carlson. Some great lessons here: "The next risk is rarely the same as the last risk because every market environment is different. On the other hand, the biggest mistakes investors make are often the same — timing the market, recency bias, being fearful when others are fearful and greedy when others are greedy and investing in the latest fads. It’s always a different market but human nature is the constant." What I'm listening to— A great playlist to get your energy levels back up. What I'm sharing— Trapped in routine? Here’s how to “dishabituate” and rediscover joy by Tali Sharot: "Sometimes, then, we need to break a habit by consciously adopting a plan of “dishabituation.” We have to learn again to see what we used to see. Sharot argues that there are two main ways to do this: breaking and changing." Whenever you're ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:
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