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Life is Not a Kiddie Pool
How to not get stuck in the shallow end
This is the latest volume of the newsletter I send out every Monday Morning. It’s called Renaissance and is full of learning, inspiration, and dad humor.
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What I’m learning 🧠
How our Western culture “over-indexes on novelty and suffers from commitment phobia.”
This idea comes from an article written by David Perell titled, Hugging the X-axis.
In it, he explains that many of us are doomed to spend our lives in the shallows of a variety of different jobs, topics, and relationships, instead of going deep into one or two.
Here’s a helpful graph:
Commitment is the key that unlocks vertical movement along the Y-axis.
It allows us to create “personal monopolies” which are formed once we’ve gone deep enough into a subject to become the go-to person in that area of expertise.
My biggest takeaway from the article is that you can reduce your level of anxiety by…
