⏱️ Why you won’t be ready later
💡 2 THOUGHTS FROM ME
I. If you want to become great at something, follow these simple steps:
1) Find something that feels easy to you
2) Work really hard at it
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II. You will be no more prepared in the future than you are right now if you make no changes to what you’re doing today.
You won’t be wiser. You won’t be more knowledgeable. You won’t be more ready. You won’t be more confident. You won’t be more prepared.
The only way to change your future is to change your present—either by doing the thing you’ve been putting off or by adjusting your habits and practices to prepare for what you don’t yet feel ready to do.
What you can’t do is keep doing exactly what you’re doing and expect to feel differently at some random point down the road.
In some cases, you won’t feel ready until you actually start. In others, you can build confidence and competency, but it starts by taking action now.
If you keep saying, “I’ll do X someday,” but do nothing today to prepare for that day, “someday” will never come.
💬 2 HELPFUL QUOTES
I. Jon Tyson on the supernatural beliefs of atheists:
Atheists believe in at least six miracles:
Something from nothing
Order from chaos
Life from non-life
Personal from the non-personal
Reason from non-reason
Morality from matter
II. Albert Camus on the excuses we make for ourselves:
“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
📖 1 BRIEF BOOK REVIEW
A fascinating book on how different animals and insects perceive the world. It explores how the sensitivity of their senses differs from ours and how wildly different our perceptions of reality can be.
The book is eye-opening in many ways, and I learned a lot. At the same time, it was a long read. Given the depth of information and explanations, it’s not something you can get through quickly.
By the end, I had to push myself to finish it. If you're interested in this topic, you’ll likely enjoy the book. However, I think most casual readers might lose interest after a while.
If it were 100 pages shorter, I think it would appeal to a wider audience. If you're an animal lover, however, I think you would enjoy it.
The author does a great job delivering on the book’s premise. My rating is based on how much I enjoyed the book, and while I appreciated learning from it, which keeps my rating higher than it might have been otherwise, it required more effort to get through than I would have liked.
7/10
