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Decades Over Days
How to focus long term over short term.
Good morning (or afternoon) from wherever you are in the world.
Here to deliver what I found interesting over the past week.
Something to Read: Amara’s Law
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run”.
A statement of fact coined up by futurist Roy Amara on how we perceive the impact of a new technology.
But lets apply this idea to the common person:
From news headlines to whatever life throws at you — we tend to overestimate what’ll happen next week.
And underestimate what’ll happen over the next year.
How many of us overestimated the negative implications of a virus?
To then see the water settling after a year of hysteria and confusion?
Or think about the abrupt breakup that left you bedridden for days on end.
Image by Jack Butcher of Visualize Value
Remember: It all works out in the end.
Something to Watch:
10 Great Desk Accessories for Workspace Setups
For those that still need to upgrade your work-from-home space, this is the video for you.
A Song to Listen to:
AVOURE - Aura
Listen to this track and many others on La Fórmula, a playlist by Modern Analects
A Quote to Think About:
“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”
Epictetus