#778: Q&A with Tim How to Live with Urgency, Find Joy, and Fight Complacency

A lot of the piss and vinegar and sort of spitfire focus that I've had, I think has been predicated subconsciously on some belief that with enough of X success, that success resolves... most issues, and that's just not true.

Constant motion, in some respects, or constant productivity, per se, is the enemy of oblique thinking.

The world does not end if you slow down or take a break. It'll carry on just perfectly fine, generally, without you.

My plan time horizon tends to be, I would say, with most things, in this 6 to 12 month range. And the assumption is, there, that if I do really well at something over that period of time, it will open doors that I could not have predicted or foreseen ahead of time.

I'm looking for projects that will help me to either build or deepen relationships and acquire skills that can transcend that project.

The question that I ask myself... is with question X or challenge Y, has anyone less capable or less intelligent or less resourceful ever figured this out and done a pretty good job? And, of course, the answer is yes with parenting.

Each time you try something that's not really bound within your current identity, it buys you permission to do that over and over again and to open up a whole new realm of possibilities that you might not have considered.