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3-2-1: How to find your way in life, the power of quiet weeks, and the problem with smart people

read on JamesClear.com | August 8, 2024

Happy 3-2-1 Thursday!

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Here are 3 ideas, 2 quotes, and 1 question to consider this week...

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3 Ideas From Me

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"Communication is about what is received, not what is intended. If there is a gap between what you are saying and what they are hearing, you have to find a new way to say it."

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"Finding your way in life is like unlocking the combination of a safe. You have to go forwards and backwards. Life is not a direct march from A to B. The twists and turns are progress, not regression. What feels like a setback in the moment is later revealed to have been part of the path all along. Each move was necessary to get to your end goal."

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"The problem with smart people is they can come up with a good reason for not doing anything. They are smart enough to find the cracks, to foresee the challenges, and to talk themselves out of the idea. They are experts at justifying their lack of courage or lack of action with an intelligent excuse.

But there will always be reasons to not do something, and this is particularly true of anything worth doing. We value those moments in which we overcame challenge, not those in which we avoided it. Ultimately, action is a choice. The choice to emphasize the reasons for doing it despite the reasons you have for avoiding it."

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2 Quotes From Others

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Episcopal bishop and clergyman Phillips Brooks reminds us of the power of quiet weeks:

"Someday, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer."

Source: The Purpose and Use of Comfort​

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Novelist and literary scholar C. S. Lewis on the risk of love:

"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, air-less—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

Source: The Four Loves (Hat tip to Dylan O'Sullivan)

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1 Question For You

Author and investor Morgan Housel shares a thought-provoking question: "Whose life do I admire that is secretly miserable?"

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[Starrlight]

I don’t know how to answer that question right now, but it helped to read your ideas and quotes from others,, thank you so!!!

[Midori]

Wow! I love the C.S. Lewis quote; it is so true.

Cheers, Midori

[LongestBlue]

Thx Mizzou! Thx for providing this opportunity!!! For myself I have learned that I need to pay close attention to what goes in to my mind, so much of today s input through news, social media, limited thoughts and judgments from others and my own negative thinking - ruminations which are all garbage and it simply leads to garbage in garbage out. The gate keeper for my thinking is vital. It’s good to have a direction for my thoughts each day as well being present in the moment- which for me is puppy training. When I’m well it’s through helping work. Of course learning to follow a new approach requires building new neuro muscles to do the work and persistence. Love this approach!

[Vonus5591]

Communication is certainly important, my mum taught me

I would directly ask question but mum would explain why we needed it and get better response. She always explaining far more/further and getting good feedback and people have respect because she takes time to explain things fully and properly

True we need success, to show our path in life was worth it but just to attempt and put in effort and try again and again worth it (talking about exam results just do it till you get outcome)

Love, passion and lust all different but greatest gift in life is to love and care. No need to protect your hear forever, right people will lead you to love