Monday
There are things that people do as children and then quit for all kinds of reasons. Just because you stopped back then doesn’t mean you can’t start again now. Your life is yours. It doesn’t belong to Miss Trunchbull or that pack of cool kids or that insecure coach or your parents. It belongs to you. If you want to, get those flute lessons, write the story, carve the wood, learn the maths, [insert your thing here]. It doesn’t matter how long ago your thing got taken away, it’s still yours. You can take it back.
Tuesday
My advice was instead of hoping for a good working time, choose to have a good working time. I do this by looking for the joy. What I mean by that is I try to find aspects of my work that connect with what makes me joyful.
Wednesday
I wrote that resistance is fertile. Friction can give you more control. Desirable difficulty can help you learn more effectively. Pushback can drive you to do better work. In a world where everyone is trying to sell you results without effort, the clever thing might be choosing the difficult route on purpose. (I’m holding myself back from writing a dozen qualifiers and caveats that you don’t need me to spell out because you know them already.)
Thursday
Doing the job right
the first time is the easiest way
to make people trust you.
It’s the simplest strategy
for standing out from the crowd.
It’s the quickest route
to promotion.
[Doing the job right the first time
is pure, glorious laziness](https://fforest.substack.com/p/doing-the-job-right-the-first-time)
(provided you take the long view).
I’m looking for a phrase you would hear on an infomercial. The clue:
Spooner’s excuse to his friend is armed conflict between nations.
Answers in the comments, please.
How does one improve Burning Down the House? By adding St Vincent and a bunch of brass.
Happy weekend!
Jeff
You can't improve on a perfect tune, now canya?
But wait, there’s more! (But mate, there’s war!)