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: Stay In The Game
- Wednesday: I Think I Need to Talk About Failure
- Friday: Jevons Paradox
Wisdom Worth Sharing:
Underrated life advice: Just stay in the game. The best things in life are a result of compounding. But you can’t compound if you let yourself get taken out of the game. Whatever storm life throws your way, just roll with it. Adapt. Survive and advance. Always stay in the game.
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Wednesday: I Think I Need to Talk About Failure
Last Sunday, I was scheduled to run a marathon with a goal of completing the race in 2:49:59.
I trained all summer for the race, building up to 70+ mile weeks. I tapered. I carb-loaded. I meticulously prepared for every detail.
And honestly, I was certain I’d do it.
But…I failed.
After 21.45 miles at a 6:24 average pace, I stopped and walked off the course. I didn’t finish. DNF.
That’s not something you read in newsletters or see on social media every day. It’s all about wins. Successes. Achievements.
On Wednesday, I wrote about why failure is a good thing. It means you had the courage to go all-in. To try. To do something. To step into the arena.
You may not always get it done. But you’ll win at life along the way...
(read the full piece here)
Friday: Jevons Paradox
In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons studied the impact of the increased efficiency of coal use.
The common economic intuition said that as efficiency improved, people would use less coal. Jevons argued that the economic reality was different: As technology improved the efficiency of coal use, demand for coal would increase as people created and justified new uses.
It became known as Jevons Paradox: technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a given resource lead to a rise in the consumption of that resource.
I think the most interesting application of Jevons Paradox is in your life. When you optimize for efficiency, you may find yourself doing more, not less, of the thing you tried to become more efficient at.
On Friday, I shared a simple reminder:
Efficiency is great. But only when it gets you more of what you actually want...
(read the full piece here)
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