Weekly Highlights #9
A weekly round-up of things I found interesting, fun or useful.
📚 Books
I’ve been reading The Laws of Human Nature for the last few weeks. I particularly liked the below sentence as it describes a lot of our bias to outwardly seek to justify why things aren’t going our way. It is often far easier to lie to ourselves and distort the true picture to protect our self-esteem.
"It is hard to learn from experience when we are not looking inward, at the true causes." - Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
I finished Poor Charlie’s Almanack this week and it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. If you think it’s just about business you’d be mistaken. It touches on worldly wisdom, mental frameworks, living life and developing principles and virtues. His most famous talk in the book is chapter 11 called The Psychology of Human Misjudgment which is based on 25 mental biases we need to be wary of if we want to have an easier and better life. I condensed the chapter to create a checklist for you, for free. Screenshot the picture or download the PDF here.
📜 Articles
I’ve been going through Paul Graham’s Essays recently and particularly enjoyed "Superlinear Returns”.
“Teachers and coaches implicitly told us the returns were linear. "You get out," I heard a thousand times, "what you put in." They meant well, but this is rarely true. If your product is only half as good as your competitor's, you don't get half as many customers. You get no customers, and you go out of business.”
Read the full article here
💭 Quotes
A quote from Naval here that brought about an interesting debate about what defines ‘Human success’. Whatever your definition of it is I’m sure that reading alone won’t get you into the top echelon if you don’t apply what you are reading.
❓Questions
What is your definition of the phrase ‘human success’?
How can reading enhance your life, if at all you believe it can?
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