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This perspective separates the elite from the average in sports and in life. The way you handle one thing is the way you handle everything, and you must handle it at an elite level. If you want to be elite, you have to stay in the now and keep moving forward. The now matters. You can't let your situations define you. With attitude and effort, you must define your situation.
Row the Boat
Jon Gordon and P.J. Fleck
Mutual learning is only possible when all participants are willing to be wrong… willing to learn, to explore new ideas, to go off the map, out of the known, and together grope in the shadowy corners of new ideas, new plans, new territories.
Small Arcs of Larger Circles
Nora Bateson
At the other extreme of the thought experiment, imagine you could time travel at will, as much as you wanted to, anywhere, anywhen in the universe. Would you busily go around rearranging all of history until you had an optimal timeline for the universe, designed entirely for your direct experiential pleasure in some sense? Or would you jump back to the Big Bang and simply live through the whole thing, occasionally fast-forwarding or sneaking a look ahead when you get impatient? Do you want to watch the movie or produce it? I’ll leave you to play with these ideas on your own, but I want to zoom in on one particular feature of life that immortality affords.
Crash Early, Crash Often
Venkatesh Rao
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