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I used to really appreciate fs. After a few years i, personally, think it’s clickbait and i am not the target audience anymore.

by sturza 5y ago

throw14082020 5y ago
I agree too. I have the same feeling about Scott Young's newsletters. They both seem talk a lot but don't provide the same level of value they used. Then again, this article is from 2015. > The best way to improve your ability to think is to actually spend time thinking. > Good decision makers understand a simple truth: you can’t make good decisions without good thinking and good thinking requires time. One I still subscribe to is James Clear, I really like his 3-2-1 newsletters every thursday. One from a few weeks ago: > "Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem. > If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome."
- bogdanoff_2 5y ago
  > "Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem. > If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome." I wish I could internalize that. For some reasons I feel as if it was the opposite.
- ampersandy 5y ago
  This fear of failure by others is why so many people have a hard time delegating. Sometimes things will fail, and that’s ok (with a few exceptions, of course).
redisman 5y ago
It’s self-help. Usually the half life of those is a few articles and then you kind of know that they’ll just repeat that until people stop paying attention to them
alexpetralia 5y ago
I had the exact same impression. It has become so watered down and superficial.
yawnxyz 5y ago
same... this article doesn't actually seem to cover its own topic. One has to wonder if the article itself was written slowly, or rushed to production to garner more clicks? I would have loved to learn about how to synthesize and filter what you read, and at what point your amount of stuff to read reaches saturation. I always hear "I read all the books I could find!" but that's an impossible statement for almost any field — I just want to know if there's an agreed upon state where one can feel that one has read everything available to start thinking for oneself and forming original thoughts.

I used to really appreciate fs. After a few years i, personally, think it’s clickbait and i am not the target audience anymore.

by sturza 5y ago

I used to really appreciate fs. After a few years i, personally, think it’s clickbait and i am not the target audience anymore.

throw14082020 5y ago

I agree too. I have the same feeling about Scott Young's newsletters. They both seem talk a lot but don't provide the same level of value they used. Then again, this article is from 2015. > The best way to improve your ability to think is to actually spend time thinking. > Good decision makers understand a simple truth: you can’t make good decisions without good thinking and good thinking requires time. One I still subscribe to is James Clear, I really like his 3-2-1 newsletters every thursday. One from a few weeks ago: > "Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem. > If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome."

bogdanoff_2 5y ago
> "Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem. > If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome." I wish I could internalize that. For some reasons I feel as if it was the opposite.
ampersandy 5y ago
This fear of failure by others is why so many people have a hard time delegating. Sometimes things will fail, and that’s ok (with a few exceptions, of course).

redisman 5y ago

It’s self-help. Usually the half life of those is a few articles and then you kind of know that they’ll just repeat that until people stop paying attention to them

alexpetralia 5y ago

I had the exact same impression. It has become so watered down and superficial.

yawnxyz 5y ago

same... this article doesn't actually seem to cover its own topic. One has to wonder if the article itself was written slowly, or rushed to production to garner more clicks? I would have loved to learn about how to synthesize and filter what you read, and at what point your amount of stuff to read reaches saturation. I always hear "I read all the books I could find!" but that's an impossible statement for almost any field — I just want to know if there's an agreed upon state where one can feel that one has read everything available to start thinking for oneself and forming original thoughts.