3 Ideas You Might Have Missedread 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.
Week At A Glance:
- Weekly Wisdom: Slow Down to Speed Up
- Wednesday: 7 Lies I Stopped Telling Myself
- Friday: The Zipper Test: How to Stop Fooling Yourself
Wisdom Worth Sharing:Major cheat code for life: Become difficult to rush. The world will pressure you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines. There's immense power in rejecting that trend. Slow down. Create space to think clearly. (share to x/twitter!)
Wednesday: 7 Lies I Stopped Telling MyselfA few years ago, as part of the research for my first book, I asked a group of centenarians for the advice they'd most like to give to their younger selves. One of them offered this piece of wisdom:
"The most damning lie you can tell is the lie you tell to yourself."
Those lies dilute your attention, pull you toward distractions, and cut into your confidence. They give you an easy out when the truth requires more painful accountability. Those lies keep you from running at full power. Self-protection that becomes self-rejection. In the years since that conversation, I've often found myself reflecting on the comment as a thought experiment for my own life: What are the lies I'm telling myself right now? Through identifying those lies, I've slowly learned to stopped telling them. On Wednesday, I shared 7 lies I finally stopped telling myself... (read the full piece here)
Friday: The Zipper Test: How to Stop Fooling YourselfMy son just turned four. One of the things I love most about the age is the unbridled curiosity with which he explores the world. He's deep in the classic "why" phase, taking me down explanatory rabbit holes that go long past my point of comfort. But one of the most interesting prompts he asked recently was this one: "Tell me all about zippers." On any given day, zipper is replaced by some basic thing that we interact with. It might be tell me all about our car, or trees, or cooking pans, or the microwave. I have a rule that I always engage with him on these little curiosity quests, even if they come at a bad time. In doing so, I've realized something: I know very little about how the most basic things around me actually work. On Friday, I explored the real science behind why this happens, why we so often mistake familiarity for understanding, and how running your own life through the Zipper Test can help you stop fooling yourself... (read the full piece here)
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