8 published lessons with this tag.
Physical sensations like tension or ease contain information your conscious mind may miss.
Things that feel urgent are rarely the most important — urgency is a noise amplifier.
Curating better inputs is more efficient than filtering bad ones. Every hour spent choosing credible sources saves ten hours of downstream fact-checking, second-guessing, and correcting decisions built on noise.
Every minute spent consuming noise is a minute stolen from depth. The cost of staying informed about everything is understanding nothing well enough to act on it.
Strong emotional responses to information often indicate manipulation, not importance. Your triggers are not a relevance filter — they are a vulnerability map.
The metrics that predict your future are different from the metrics that describe your past. Most people track the wrong ones — and by the time they notice, the future has already arrived.
Experts do not process more information than novices. They process less — because they have learned which information to ignore. Expertise is not faster consumption. It is superior filtration.
When you cannot distinguish signal from noise, the highest-value action is usually inaction. Time is a filter — it degrades noise and amplifies signal. Forcing a decision under ambiguity does not resolve uncertainty; it converts uncertainty into error.