The Best Minute: Pushing yourself, failing VS failure, and 5 questions

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Eliezer Yudkowsky on pushing yourself:

“If you never fail, you’re only trying things that are too easy and playing far below your level… If you can’t remember any time in the last six months when you failed, you aren’t trying to do difficult enough things.”

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II. Rich Villodas on the scandal of the Gospel:

“One of the great scandals of the gospels is this: God is free to show mercy to those we deem are outside the bounds of receiving it.”

2 IDEAS FROM ME

I. Don’t confuse failing with failure. Failing happens when you are trying things that aren’t working. Failure happens when you stop trying altogether.

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II. Here are five questions to ask in sequence when someone wants to meet with you for advice:

What’s on your mind?
And what else?
What’s the real challenge for you here?
What do you want?
How can I help?

1 INTERESTING FACT

You are taller in the morning than you are at night.

Over the course of the day, the effects of gravity push down on your spine. When you lie down at night, gravity isn’t pushing down on your vertebrae, allowing your back to stretch to its natural length. In the mornings, you can be as much as 25 millimeters taller than at night.

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