I went spearfishing once with my friend and apart from feeling like I was in outer space with all the sea life I was seeing and nearly swimming into, I noticed that I had this fear of being eaten by a shark and also that that fear disappeared completely when I was focused on trying …
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Luck and work
Every successful person has had their share of good luck. They’ve also had their share of bad luck. Some people suggest that it’s grit that matters. Sticking with it. Sticking with it long enough to be lucky. Hard work. Good luck. I could wish you good luck. I could wish you hard work. Hard work.
Which tooth is the most important to brush?
Last night, my little kid asked me, “Which tooth is the most important to brush?” I said something like, “The one you neglect the most.” If you don’t take care of something, especially yourself, or a part of yourself, it has a way of catching up with you.
How to spot a counterfeit
I remember reading that when government agents are training to spot counterfeit bills, they don’t study any counterfeit bills at all—they study only genuine bills. Interesting that after you’re immersed in the original, the fakes are obvious.
Instructions and reasons
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, I’ve been hearing a lot that you should wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. Washing my hands makes sense, sure, because of germs, but why 20 seconds? There’s probably a reason, but I haven’t heard it yet. Why is 20 seconds better than 10 seconds? Are you supposed to …
Learn by doing
You can probably learn a lot about riding a bike from reading a book. But you can’t learn to ride a bike by reading a book. Being told how to keep your balance feels different than losing your balance and keeping your balance. Get out there.
Get your hands dirty
People don’t always want to bake things from scratch, so companies started selling cake mixes, to make it easier. When they started selling cake mixes, they made it so easy that all you had to do was add water and mix things. But people actually didn’t like that, so the companies removed the powdered eggs …
Worth doing
They say that if something’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing well. But it has also been said that: If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly. I couldn’t agree more. I think of this when I surf because I am a mediocre surfer. It will take a long time to become as good as …
Free secrets
What they don’t tell you. My wife grew up working in her family’s cafe and they made hash browns and I love hash browns but they never taste like the restaurant’s hash browns and I asked her how they made them and she said they parboiled the potatoes the day before, then put them in …
Focus
Once the glass of a car windshield is cracked, it’s very hard to stop the crack from continuing to grow longer because the crack has somewhere to go. It’s focused. The way they fix this is to drill a small circular hole at the end of the crack, so that it loses its focus and …