3-2-1: Arguments, staying young, and the pain of truth

Happy 3-2-1 Thursday!

Here are 3 ideas, 2 quotes, and 1 question to consider this week.

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"Research widely, select carefully.

Broad funnel, tight filter."

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"Odds are, the latest office debate or family squabble isn't worth winning. Most arguments are only tangentially related to your end goal.

What outcomes are you actually trying to create? What type of life are you actually trying to cultivate? Stay focused."

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III.

"The first step—perhaps the most enormous step—is to find what you are genuinely interested in.

If you are genuinely interested, you will discover endless opportunities for improvement. But if you are disinterested, even obvious improvements will feel like a chore.

And, if you can maintain your genuine interest and curiosity as the years accumulate, you will become hard to compete with because you will have skill to go with your passion. If you're interested, you're dangerous."

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Entrepreneur, author, and photographer Kevin Kelly on staying young:

"The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."

Source: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known​

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Poet and activist June Jordan on the pain of truth:

"As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life."

Source: Some of Us Did Not Die​

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What is one step I can take today to help create the outcomes I want in life?

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Until next week,

James Clear
​Author of the #1 worldwide bestseller, Atomic Habits​
Creator of the Habit Journal​

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p.s. I can't wait to start referring to dinner reservations this way.

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