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 Free Reset Button
- Wednesday: The Middle Path to Happiness
- Friday: My 90-10 Rule For Routines
Wisdom Worth Sharing:
Underrated life advice: Keep proof that good things happen to you. Old photos. Kind messages. Positive feedback. Notes from great days. Whatever. Store them in a single place. Call it a Rainy Day Folder. Pop it open on a bad day and watch your mood turn. It's a free reset button.
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Wednesday: The Middle Path to Happiness
In the 3rd century BCE, King Pyrrhus was preparing for an aggressive military campaign when he had a memorable exchange with a trusted advisor named Cineas:
“Having conquered Italy, what will we do next?” Cineas asked.
“After Italy, then we will conquer Sicily," Pyrrhus replied.
“And then what?” asked Cineas.
“Then Libya and Carthage are within reach," said the king.
“And then what?” Cineas pressed.
Smiling, King Pyrrhus replied, “Then we will live a life of ease. Drink all day and have pleasant conversation with our friends.
"Cineas paused and spoke:
“But what's stopping us from doing that today?”
The story is one of the oldest documented cases of the Arrival Fallacy: the false assumption that reaching some achievement or goal will create durable feelings of satisfaction and contentment in our lives.
But life is rarely so black and white. Ambition isn't the mortal enemy. And presence isn't the perfect hero.
On Wednesday, I wrote about choosing the middle path. Rejecting the or and embracing the and. Presence and ambition. The chase, the pursuit, the growth. And the pause, the space, the joy.
You can conquer your Carthage if you want to. Just don't make the wine wait for it...
(read the full piece here)
Friday: My 90-10 Rule For Routines
Confession: I'm a routine guy.
I thrive on structure. I think of routines as a way to ensure execution against the daily action that contributes to long-term, compounding progress.
But there's a dark side to routines that nobody talks about.
When your routines become too rigid and complicated, they become a source of stress rather than strength. The routines meant to serve you can start to own you.
This is where my 90-10 Rule comes in:
- 90% disciplined compliance
- 10% open flexibility
90% of the time, I'm locked in with my structure, but 10% of the time, I give myself the space to let life happen freely.
The 10% is what enables the 90% to be so effective.
Your routine should serve your life, not own it...
(read the full piece here)
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