from jack | by jack

almost 3 years ago

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try and look at everything you do as if you didn't do it

more specifically, when you're trying to explain something to someone else it's all the stuff that you don't think you need to say out loud that they need to hear

probably why we have endless words of advice and encouragement for others but get stuck on the simplest of things ourselves "zoom out"

also probably true that working by "ourselves" suppresses something quite natural a simple shift in mentality - the market is your collaborator, not your opponent

here's a 2020 vintage that talks a bit more about this