❝If you commit to nothing, then you’ll find that it’s easy to be distracted by everything.❞ — James Clear
Obvious facts
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery – a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
It's a human need to be told stories
“And it’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.”
— Alan Rickman, 1946-2016
The king and the pawn
“After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.”
Old Italian Proverb
The natural size
I’ve come across this little piece of Seth Godin’s wisdom and I’m going to share it here, as it was published by him today:
“No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few.
And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred.
An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of companies.
And it doesn’t matter how many students are in the class, the teacher is only going to be able to get in sync with a few.
Microphones, network connections and other forms of scale are a miracle, but sooner or later, our brains get in the way.”
— Seth Godin