Commonplace book

“Have more than you show; say less than you know.”

Source uncertain; commonly circulated saying.

“If you die before you die, you won’t die when you die.”

Encountered in Brian Muraresku’s The Immortality Key.

Na vida não existe linha de chegada. Existe um processo de crescimento e aprendizado contínuo, guiado pela capacidade de enxergar e julgar o que é o seu melhor a cada segundo, e não apenas o que você quer. A diferença entre o que você faz e o seu melhor se chama compromisso e integridade.

Carlos Moreira Jr., personal note.

“Every person wants to be financially secure, physically safe and socially free.”

Source uncertain.

“Vulnerability is the acceptance of imperfection.”

Recorded from James Clear.

A felicidade não gosta de quem a exige; gosta de quem a percebe.

Personal note; source not recorded.

A disciplina antecede a espontaneidade.

Personal note; source not recorded.

Os pequenos cabem em qualquer lugar.

Personal note; source not recorded.

A palavra convence; o exemplo arrasta.

Traditional saying; attribution not recorded.

O processo e a disciplina eternizam.

Personal note; source not recorded.

“What don’t I know? Don’t be arrogant about what you know.”

Recorded from Ray Dalio.

“Improve instead of prove yourself.”

Adam Grant, Think Again.

Influence: find common ground, use very few strong arguments, and ask genuine questions.

Paraphrase from Adam Grant, Think Again.

“Don’t follow your passion. Follow your curiosity.”

Recorded from Mark Cuban.

Discovering something is not the same as inventing it. Invention includes application and scale to address a problem.

Personal note.

“The less you do, the less you learn.”

Recorded from Rana el Kaliouby.

Culture is an inside-out process and cannot be borrowed. Like Darwin’s theory of evolution, there is a nature aspect and a nurture aspect of the collective, and each affects the other.

Carlos Moreira Jr., personal note.

Machine learning looks backward for patterns to make future decisions. The risk is becoming locked into the past and amplifying those patterns into the future.

Paraphrase recorded from Deb Roy.

“You can be anything you are good at, as long as someone is hiring.”

Adapted from Chris Rock.

“My past doesn’t have to equal my future.”

Recorded from Tony Robbins, Money.

“Invention is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

Attributed to Thomas Edison; followed in the notebook by: invention advances through trial and error.

“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

Attributed to Thomas Edison.

“Fall in love with the daily process.”

Recorded from Kobe Bryant.

Preparation and perspiration.

Note recorded from Barack Obama’s Senate campaign story.

Persistence and curiosity.

Note recorded from Eric Schmidt.

Fall in love with the problem, not with the technology.

Common startup principle; source not recorded.

You don’t make mistakes. Mistakes make you.

Source not recorded.

People who achieve their dreams are not necessarily better. They kept going.

Personal paraphrase; source not recorded.

When an opportunity comes your way, say yes, then figure it out.

Source not recorded.

The man in the arena matters more than the critic: credit belongs to the person who strives, errs and spends himself in a worthy cause.

Paraphrase of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Citizenship in a Republic” speech.

The most common thing that sabotages effective habit-building is starting too big.

Paraphrase recorded from James Clear.

Planning can become its own form of procrastination: motion versus action.

Paraphrase recorded from James Clear.

Build new habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.

Paraphrase recorded from James Clear.

“I was not raised to respect consistency; I was raised to revere intensity.”

Recorded from Brené Brown.

Identity-based habits lead toward the kind of person you wish to become.

Paraphrase recorded from James Clear.

“You don’t rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems.”

James Clear.

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.

Paraphrase recorded from James Clear.

Every action is a vote for the kind of person you wish to become.

Paraphrase recorded from James Clear.

“Everyone wants transformation, but no one wants to change.”

Recorded from Brené Brown.

Change or Die: even after a heart attack, many people struggle to change the habits their survival depends on.

Reading note.

“Innovation is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity.”

Matt Ridley, recorded from How Innovation Works.

Human progress has repeatedly expanded through specialization and exchange: people perform narrower work while gaining access to a wider world of goods, services and ideas.

Paraphrase recorded from Matt Ridley.

The evolution of our species is a result of specialization and exchange.

Paraphrase recorded from Matt Ridley.

To explain the modern global economy, explain the perpetual innovation machine that emerged from specialization and exchange.

Paraphrase recorded from Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist.

Human minds were shaped by selfish genes, yet also evolved to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

Paraphrase recorded from Matt Ridley.

A warmer future may still produce less hunger if agricultural productivity and adaptation improve.

Reading note attributed to IPCC lead authors via The Rational Optimist; wording and context should be checked before external citation.

Reading note: the largest avoidable causes of death in poorer countries included hunger, unsafe water, indoor smoke and malaria; the notebook contrasted the returns from health and hunger interventions with climate mitigation.

Paraphrase from The Rational Optimist; figures omitted here because the original source and timeframe require verification.

Parents have two jobs: establish limits that do not depend on the child’s response, and show empathy by validating the child’s feelings.

Paraphrase from a Huberman Lab conversation with an education specialist on teenagers; episode attribution to be completed.

“O estado contente da mente depende da gente.”

Short excerpt from “Feliz, Alegre e Forte,” Marisa Monte.