Control What You Can

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This is your Sunday Space, where I serve up the best ideas, tools and resources I’ve found each week as we explore the technology shaping the future.

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IDEAS
Control What You Can

Ancient wisdom often provides the clearest solutions to our modern anxieties. While technology has transformed our world, human nature remains remarkably constant. As Naval Ravikant notes, for these timeless human challenges, we'd be wise to study those who grappled with them millennia ago.

Whenever Epictetus (one of history’s most influential ancient Stoic philosophers) saw an anxious person, he always asked himself what they wanted. What are they after?

Control what you can. Nothing else matters.

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INSIGHTS
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You Don't Need More How-To Advice — You Need a Beautiful and Painful Reckoning

Transformative personal change often stems from a powerful emotional realisation (or "Harajuku Moment") rather than accumulating more how-to knowledge. Sustainable change comes from simple, consistent actions and understanding the cost of inaction.

Luca’s take: I'm always searching for signal in a world filled with noise—those simple rules of thumb that give the “aha!” moment which reduce the friction of action to zero.

There is plenty of signal in this brief read. But there is one overarching rule that stood out to me:

Basically, screw advice. Even the advice I might give in this newsletter.

As Chad Fowler, the protagonist of the article says, “the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable.”

Stop wishing and start doing.

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THOUGHTS
Quote I’m Pondering

“Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whomever you want.”

— Frida Kahlo

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— Luca

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