There’s an important connection between your points on optimizing the measurable + story telling…
Happiness, love, meaning, etc. are all subjective experiences. Improving the quality of those stories is far more valuable to your overall life’s experience than optimizing objective measures.
But, but, but: "you don't manage what you don't measure!" Yeah, that's the problem.
I do think there are degrees of how well we measure (knowing of course it's imperfect, because of present mood biasing how we look at the past). Greater awareness of our emotional state is a start!
* I don't think they necessarily need to be reconciled. It is natural for the rate of learning in a domain to decrease as you gain expertise. But if you keep expanding new domains to learn, there will be *something* that you see a steeper learning slope in.
* On 38 - I feel the key thing that makes work exceptional is that it stands out from most people's expectations. So if you think like most people, it's going to be hard to do exceptional work. If you do try to do this type of work and tell folks about it ahead of time, they'll probably tell you "oh that's weird" and maybe say you're wasting your time. So it's really important to find people who share similar outlier tastes to you, who will not just tolerate but encourage your outlier perspectives.
An amazing list, and written so clearly 🙏🏼 Thank you for sharing
There’s an important connection between your points on optimizing the measurable + story telling…
Happiness, love, meaning, etc. are all subjective experiences. Improving the quality of those stories is far more valuable to your overall life’s experience than optimizing objective measures.
But, but, but: "you don't manage what you don't measure!" Yeah, that's the problem.
I do think there are degrees of how well we measure (knowing of course it's imperfect, because of present mood biasing how we look at the past). Greater awareness of our emotional state is a start!
I enjoyed this list! You’re insightful for age 40 😄
Love!
❤️❤️ thank you for sharing!
thank you for these gems.
Dear Julie,
Thank you for sharing your insights.
21-25 resonate.
With profound humility, two questions:
- How do you reconcile 23 and 25?
- Could you say more about 38?
With gratitude,
🙏
How do you reconcile 23 + 25?
* I don't think they necessarily need to be reconciled. It is natural for the rate of learning in a domain to decrease as you gain expertise. But if you keep expanding new domains to learn, there will be *something* that you see a steeper learning slope in.
* On 38 - I feel the key thing that makes work exceptional is that it stands out from most people's expectations. So if you think like most people, it's going to be hard to do exceptional work. If you do try to do this type of work and tell folks about it ahead of time, they'll probably tell you "oh that's weird" and maybe say you're wasting your time. So it's really important to find people who share similar outlier tastes to you, who will not just tolerate but encourage your outlier perspectives.
Thank you Julie,
Grateful for your generosity
🙏