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Hunger is a habit, not a real feeling unless you are in an Ethiopian drought.

According to research, you need to have 10,000 hours of practice in something to make you an expert in it.

That’s about 250 weeks or 5 years of full time work.

Everything in life is a Trade-off. Choosing to do one thing means not doing something else. The opportunity cost is never predictable nor limited. The options are infinite. Life is too short to even comprehend your choices.

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it” Henry David Thoreau

Time is not equal money, because you can always get more money. Time is priceless.

Strategic Quitting of things is sometimes better than grit.

Research shows that the most motivating thing is:

“progress in meaningful work”

Zero fail means zero fun. That’s why Good games have 80% fail rate.

I wish the car drives itself right now so I can read. Our kids are going to be lucky! 2017

Cognitive Reappraisal: change the story and you change your mind and behavior.

Air drying Blower machines register 104 dB noise level. They may cause permenant hearing loss and ear damage. Don’t use them.

On originality and not caring about other people’s judgements:

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” — Oscar Wilde

“I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.” — Amy Poehler

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” — Albert Einstein

The AI voice and accent of the future will most probably be Californian. (The new Siri is already)