Seth's Blog : Batteries not included

It's easy to dream of a strategy or a set of tactics that will make your forward motion feel less like an uphill slog. A perpetual motion machine of progress. These are few and far between. The single most important...

Batteries not included

It's easy to dream of a strategy or a set of tactics that will make your forward motion feel less like an uphill slog. A perpetual motion machine of progress.

These are few and far between.

The single most important part of any project is the battery, the source of energy, the optimism and effort that turns the long shot into the sure thing, one day at a time.

Better to hire and train and seek out batteries. They're priceless.

       

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Seth's Blog : The memories we rehearse are the ones we live with

A million things happened to you today. The second bite of your lunch. The red light on the third block of your commute... Tomorrow, you'll remember almost none of them. And the concept that you'd remember something that happened to...

The memories we rehearse are the ones we live with

A million things happened to you today. The second bite of your lunch. The red light on the third block of your commute...

Tomorrow, you'll remember almost none of them.

And the concept that you'd remember something that happened to you when you were twelve is ludicrous.

What actually happened was this: After it (whatever that thing you remember) happened, you started telling yourself a story about that event. You began to develop a narrative about this turning point, about the relationship with your dad or with school or with cars.

Lots of people have had similar experiences, but none of them are telling themselves quite the same story about it as you are.

Over time, the story is rehearsed. Over time, the story becomes completely different from what a videotape would show us, but it doesn't matter, because the rehearsed story is far more vivid than the video ever could be.

And so the story becomes our memory, the story gets rehearsed ever more, and the story becomes the thing we tell ourselves the next time we need to make a choice.

If your story isn't helping you, work to rehearse a new story instead.

Because it's our narrative that determines who we will become.

       

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Seth's Blog : The confusion about enough

To watch people at work, it seems like we never have enough: We need more social media likes We want more market share We demand more quick wins And to see them at rest, it seems as though we never...

The confusion about enough

To watch people at work, it seems like we never have enough:

• We need more social media likes
• We want more market share
• We demand more quick wins

And to see them at rest, it seems as though we never have enough:

• Things to entertain us
• Shallow friendships
• Conspicuous displays of success

Which is why people talk about how they're always falling behind and feel like they don't have enough time.

But...

Lots of us walk around thinking we do have enough:

• Education
• Exposure to difficult topics
• Situations where we need to change our mind
• Silence
• Deep relationships based on trust and commitment

I'm wondering what happens if we flip them?

       

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