3 Ideas You Might Have Missed
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Welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle Week in Review—a quick roundup of this week's ideas to help you build a high-performing, healthy, and wealthy life.
Week At A Glance:
- Weekly Wisdom: The Art Of The Fresh Start
- Wednesday: The Hidden Debt of Convenience
- Friday: The Focusing Illusion: A Science Backed Life Trap
Wisdom Worth Sharing:
Underrated life advice: Increase your recovery speed. You can't avoid failures. You will get rejected. Make bad decisions. Lose money. Embarrass yourself. Whatever. Just learn to reset faster. Shrink the window between fall and recovery. Master the art of the fresh start.
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Wednesday: The Hidden Debt of Convenience
A few weeks ago, I came across a podcast clip of Conan O'Brien that stopped my scroll.
The comedian, who has a reported net worth of $200 million, was talking about why he doesn't pay to fly private:
"My rule is I'll fly on a private jet if someone else is paying for it...It's going to sound crazy, but I really like to go through and chat up the people at TSA. I don't mind taking the belt off. I like being in the world with other people that are traveling." There's a certain level of inconvenience that's an important part of the human experience.
It's why I've come to think of modern convenience as a debt.
When you seek convenience, you get a benefit now (in the form of ease) but it creates a corresponding liability (in the form of reality separation).
On Wednesday, I explored the obsessive pursuit of convenience and why friction is what makes your life feel real...
(read the full piece here)
Friday: The Focusing Illusion: A Science Backed Life Trap
Imagine two different people on the same mid-January day.
One lives in California. He walks outside in shorts and a t-shirt. The warm sun beams down on his face. He puts on his sunglasses, unlocks his car, and turns the AC on full blast.
One lives in New York. He walks outside in a heavy jacket. He grimaces as the cold wind hits his uncovered face. He opens the trunk of his car, takes out a brush, and starts cleaning the snow and ice off his windshield.
Which one do you assume is happier?
You just picked one in your mind. And I probably would have picked the same. Right up until I lived both.
Yes, the truth is, the two people are both me, just one year apart.
And our assumptions about their relative happiness reveal an important cognitive trap everyone needs to understand.
It's called the focusing illusion.
A cognitive bias where people overemphasize the importance of a specific, visible factor when estimating the overall happiness of an individual or group.
On Friday, I wrote about why what you can see is almost never what matters, and shared a simple question I like to call my Tuesday Test...
(read the full piece here)
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