The Best Minute: On motivation, regrets, and time

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on how to motivate others:

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast endless sea.”

II. Jonathan Safran Foer on changing your habits:

“Instead of imagining all the meals ahead of you, focus on the meal in front of you. Don't give up burgers for the rest of your life. Just order something different one time. It's hard to change lifelong habits, but it's not that hard to change a meal. Over time, those meals become your new habits.”

2 IDEAS FROM ME

I. Many of our biggest regrets in life are not due to failure, but due to not trying. What is something you aren’t doing right now out of fear of failure or what people might think? Don’t let future you live in regret; don’t be afraid to fail.

II. It is not a lack of time but how we handle our time that determines what we can and cannot accomplish. However, blaming a “lack of time” is easier than blaming our lack of priority and intentionality with the time we have been given.

1 RANDOM FACT

Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.

If you listen very closely, hot water and cold water sound slightly different when being poured. The heat changes the thickness, or viscosity, of the water, which changes the pitch of the sound it makes when it's poured. What we feel as heat comes from the molecules of the water moving faster. Cold water is thicker and therefore makes a slightly higher-pitched sound.

Source: Best Life