Summary: To succeed in the new economy, focus on creativity rather than traditional productivity. Embrace unproductive habits like walking, daydreaming, and writing to unlock your creative potential. Solitude and quiet reflection are essential for developing innovative ideas in a world increasingly dominated by AI.
Music, art, acting, painting, solving hard problems…. will go back to being the dominant forces that shape the world, the way they did during the Renaissance period hundreds of years ago. (View Highlight)
Your life will get better if you write every day. The next level is to write and publish on social media. This allows your ideas to become magnets for opportunities and humans that can elevate those ideas beyond your inner world. (View Highlight)
If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking — Leslie Lamport (View Highlight)
Reading is incredible.
On the surface it’s unproductive. Below the surface it’s the source of better ideas and an expanded vocabulary. (View Highlight)
To experience time travel, read. To achieve immortality, write – James Clear (View Highlight)
Quiet people have the loudest minds – Stephen Hawking (View Highlight)
The mind is your biggest asset. Without taking care of it, you’ll never be creative enough to thrive in the digital renaissance of the 2020s. (View Highlight)