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A “rich environment” is a combination platter of novelty, unpredictability, and complexity—three elements that catch and hold our attention much like risk. Novelty means both danger and opportunity. To our forbearers, a strange scent in the wind could be prey or predator, but either way it paid to pay attention. Unpredictability means we don’t know what happens next, thus we pay extra attention to what happens next. Complexity, when there’s lots of salient information coming at us at once, does more of the same.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
I put this section first even though it deals with some serious endgame issues such as how to fire an executive and how to lay people off. In doing so, I follow the first principle of the Bushido—the way of the warrior: keep death in mind at all times. If a warrior keeps death in mind at all times and lives as though each day might be his last, he will conduct himself properly in all his actions. Similarly, if a CEO keeps the following lessons in mind, she will maintain the proper focus when hiring, training, and building her culture.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Another important metaphor, elaborated in Shakespeare and increasingly important in our age of mutual watching and self-observation, is life as a play (a narrative with actors and an audience). This metaphor is also easily applicable to almost any life, and offers even less agency than life-as-journey. If we are actors, we have not written our own narratives.
On Some Possibilities for Life as a Joke
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