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This Week at a Glance: - Wednesday: Are Low Expectations The Key To Life?
- Friday: The Dangers of Survivorship Bias
Wisdom Worth Sharing: The best advice I got in my 20s: When you feel stuck, shrink the time horizon. Don't ask what the year needs. Ask what today needs. One finished task. One workout. One closed loop. One hard conversation. Momentum is a byproduct of movement. Remember that. (share to x/twitter!)
Wednesday: Are Low Expectations The Key To Life? In Wednesday's piece, I wrote about expectations, happiness, and where agency really lives. Happiness is the gap between expectations and reality. But taken too far, low expectations become passive and anti-agency. A model that feels more complete (to me, at least) is simple: - Low expectations for things outside your control.
- High expectations for things within it.
You don't control the hand you're dealt, but you always control how you play it. That doesn't mean it'll always work out. Sometimes you'll do everything within your control, and life will insist on doing life stuff. But it does mean you'll be at the wheel on your own journey to happiness. (read the full piece here)
Friday: The Dangers of Survivorship Bias A young statistician saved thousands of lives... The U.S. military was losing too many of its planes in battle. To stem the tide, analysts started mapping the bullet holes on the returning planes. Their plan was to add armor to the specific areas of the planes identified by the exercise. But a young analyst named Abraham Wald realized they were making a tragic mistake. On Friday, I wrote about the nature of that mistake, where it shows up, and what you can do about it. (read the full piece here)
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