The Day You Stop Thinking
Don't think.
You want to jump, but jumping feels scary. So instead of jumping in, you end up reading everything about jumping.
Then time runs out. You never jump, and eventually, you can’t even make a jump anymore.
But I figured out a way to escape this. I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you can become a doer instead of a thinker.
I love this tweet by Mark Manson:
“Learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.”
I was watching a Naval Ravikant podcast, and he hit me with these lines like a machine gun:
“And the people who are really extraordinarily successful didn’t sit around watching success porn. They just went and did it. They had such an overwhelming desire to be successful at the thing that they were doing that they just went and did that thing. They didn’t have time to study and learn and listen. They just did it.”
Now you pretty much get an idea about your weakness. You see information everywhere, in the form of books, videos, blogs, and tweets. The people who create all these are very good at human psychology, and they create fear of missing out (FOMO) in you through different types of marketing, and you become the target.
Now you don’t want to miss anything. You want to consume everything.
Here are some of my favorite relevant tweets:
Naval: Action bias: don’t plan to do it, just do it.
James Clear: We often avoid taking action because we think, “I need to learn more,” but the best way to learn is often by taking action.
Sahil: You don’t learn, then start. You start, then learn.
It’s just that the more information you collect, the more you get paralyzed by your own thoughts.
So just go out and do that thing. Figure out what you don’t know, then learn that thing.
First two line credit: anonymous Redditor.
If you like my work and want to support me then you can Buy me a momo!🥟