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#1š”Beliefs
āBeliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.ā
Maintain a beginnerās mind and actively seek to disconfirm your beliefs.
#2š”Happiness
āIf you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.ā ā Montesquieu
The earlier you realize this, the better your life will be.
#3š”The Monkey & The Pedestal
Astro Teller is the CEO of Alphabetās moonshot division, X.
Teller uses this thought experiment when deciding to take on new projects:
If you were to train a monkey to juggle torches on top of a pedestal, would you build the pedestal first or train the monkey?
The answer is to train the monkey.
Why?
Because training the monkey to juggle is harder than building a pedestal. The monkey is the bottleneck, which means you need to solve that part first or realize that you cannot and move on.
Building pedestals are not only the wrong order of operations, but the action creates the illusion of progress and introduces the sunk cost fallacy.
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