3 Ideas You Might Have Missed read time 2 minutes Welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle Week in Review—a quick roundup of this week's ideas to help you build a high-performing, healthy, and wealthy life. Forwarded this email? Join 800,000+ readers here. Apple CEO Tim Cook called my first book "a powerful call to action to think deeply about what lights you up." Join 400,000+ other readers and get it now on a big sale!
This Week at a Glance: - Monday: 4 Reflections on a Life-Changing Poem
- Wednesday: A Few Domain-Specific Things
- Friday: The Stonecutter Principle
Wisdom Worth Sharing: Major cheat code for life: Reliability. You'll achieve much more by being consistently reliable than by being occasionally extraordinary. Show up, do the work, repeat. The recipe for success in any area of life. (share to x/twitter!)
Monday: 4 Reflections on a Life-Changing Poem I recently came across a poem by Kahlil Gibran that stopped me in my tracks. It likens our life to a river—trembling with fear before entering the ocean, afraid that to do so would mean disappearing forever. The river's story is our story. Fear is natural before transformation. Surrender is necessary for growth. What feels like loss is often just expansion. Remember: You are not disappearing, you are becoming. (read the full piece here)
Wednesday: A Few Domain-Specific Things The worst mistakes in life are made when we assume a strength in one domain implies that strength in all domains. In the early 1700s, Sir Isaac Newton lost most of his fortune investing in a frenzied financial bubble surrounding The South Sea Company. In the aftermath of the episode, Newton passed a famous remark: "I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of men." The lesson: Intelligence is domain-specific. As it turns out, there are a lot of things in life that follow this same rule. In this piece, I shared a few more domain-specific things I've observed… (read the full piece here)
Friday: The Stonecutter Principle There's a story I love about three stonecutters: A traveler approached three stonecutters working on a construction site and asked each of them what they were doing.
The first stonecutter said, "I am cutting stone."
The second stonecutter replied, "I am building a wall." But the third stonecutter smiled proudly, "I am building a cathedral." Same work. Different story. This is important: The story you tell yourself about your daily actions has the power to dramatically shape the reality you experience. You won't always enjoy every task in front of you. Some days will feel dull, heavy, or thankless. But you always have the power to choose the story you tell about that work. Because the story you choose is the life you live. (read the full piece here)
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