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Mar 14Liked by Satyajit Rout

‘Switch when bored’ - that's one magic mantra to stay 'wandering' without pushing yourself to show any 'output'. It fuels the 'wandering' mindset and allows it the permission to stay so without worrying about the sunk cost of what you were already into.

Tough one to adopt, but very helpful.

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Mar 14·edited Mar 15Author

I'm still gathering up the courage to try this one from Ravikant. I find Robin Hanson's 'produce original insights' an appropriate bar to justify time spent exploring. All of which leads to a deeper question of when to quit exploring: when you get bored or when you push yourself to produce something original and find that you cannot.

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Remember Forrest Gump? He kept running and running. And then just stopped one day. Something like that!

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