I think insight is the most misused word in startup/VC circles
I’ve wondered for a long time what an insight is but never really understood it.
Even after reading a bunch of literature on this, the best explanation I have is that it’s a feeling, you know it when you get it.
I think insight is the most misused word in startup/VC circles
I’ve wondered for a long time what an insight is but never really understood it.
Even after reading a bunch of literature on this, the best explanation I have is that it’s a feeling, you know it when you get it.
A good explainer illuminating how every new idea you get is NOT an insight
It’s the difference between “Hmm.. that might work” vs “Shit/Eureka”
It’s the difference between experience rather than a concept
“What do you want to do with your life?”
The more times you ask this question, the more you realize that not knowing the answer is better than borrowing or fixating fake answers
Do you have a life journal where you document important moments of your life and pour out whatever’s in your head at that moment?
I went back and read mine today. Its one of the best feelings to be able to trace what went through your mind at different phases of life
Watching adults being happy when they consume content passively, younger generations may build the wrong mental models of happiness.
Passivity is the fastest way to depression
your intuition decides direction, your conscious mind decides strategy
when this partnership is disrupted (conscious mind tries to decide what you want, intuition tries to delineate strategy) is when life starts to feel confusing or overwhelming
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