The book contains 450 advice/wisdom Kevin Kelly wishes he’d known earlier. Below are some I hope to remember/follow:
Listening well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them “Is there more?” until there is no more.
Hatred is a curse that does not affect the hated. It only poisons the hater. Release a grudge as if it were a poison.
Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do friends can do better. In so many ways, a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
Calm is contagious. Be calm to help others.
Children totally accept — and crave — family rules…In fact, “I have a rule for X” is the only excuse you need for your own personal policies.
Every person you meet knows an amazing lot about something you know virtually nothing about. It won’t be obvious and your job is to discover what it is.
Whenever you can’t decide which path to take pick the one that produces change.
You don’t need more time because you already have all the time that you will ever get; you need more foucus.
This is the best time ever to make something. Non of the greatest, coolest creations 20 years from now have been invented yet. You are not late.
You can eat any dessert you want if you take only three bites.
Be frugal in all things except in your passions. Select a few interests that you gleefully splurge on. In fact, be all-around thrifty so that you can splurge on your passions.
Experience are fun and having influence is rewarding but only mattering makes us happy. Do stuff that matters.
Greatness is incompatible with optimizing in the short term. To achieve greatness requires a long view. Raise your time horizon to raise your goal.
For every good thing you love ask yourself what your proper dose is.
Spending as little as 15 minutes on improving how you do your thing, is the most powerful way to amplify and advance your thing.
Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.
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