The Trap of the Extraordinary is that we conflate success with the achievement of the extraordinary. Losers are those who achieve the extraordinary, losers are those who do not. It's about finding purpose, joy, and fulfillment in the ordinary along the way. The Prize is not the achievement you strive for, but the striving itself. This is about dislocating your happiness from any ends you're trying to reach.
Welcome to the second half of 2023. If you've kept up your New Year's resolutions and feel on track, great! If not, that's ok, because even if the best time to start was 6 months ago, the second best time is today.
Today, I'd like to share a distillation of my 10 favorite ideas from the 52 newsletters I've written so far this year.
The ideas covered: Spotlight Effect, 1-1-1 Method, Eisenhower Matrix, Surfer Mentality, Feynman Technique, 4 Types of Luck, Trap of the Extraordinary, Character Invention, Think Day, and Time Billionaire.