Make Your Work Come to Life The Daily Laws, March 15th

Leonardo da Vinci’s hunger to get at the core of life by exploring its details drove him into elaborate research on human and animal anatomy. He wanted to be able to draw a human or a cat from the inside out. He personally dissected cadavers, sawing through bones and skulls, and he religiously attended autopsies so that he could see as closely as possible the structure of muscles and nerves.

His anatomical drawings were far in advance of anything of his time for their realism and accuracy. In your own work you must follow the Leonardo path. Most people don’t have the patience to absorb their minds in the fine points and minutiae that are intrinsically part of their work. They are in a hurry to create effects and make a splash; they think in large brush strokes. Their work inevitably reveals their lack of attention to detail-it doesn’t connect deeply with the public, and it feels flimsy.

You must see whatever you produce as something that has a life and presence of its own. Seeing your work as something alive, your path to mastery is to study and absorb these details in a universal fashion, to the point at which you feel the life force and can express it effortlessly in your work.

Daily Law: See your work as a living thing. Your task is to bring it alive and make others feel this.

“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.”

— Unknown

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“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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Tiny Thought, Asymmetry

Linear games are won by working harder than others. And the harder other people work, the higher the bar. You need to work harder and harder, just to stay in the same relative position.

Asymmetry is different. Even people who understand asymmetry consistently underestimate its power.

Positive asymmetry happens when you have a lot of upside and little downside. Negative asymmetry is when you have little upside and high downside. Finding hidden or overlooked asymmetry is the key to an unstoppable advantage. And there is a lot of it hiding in plain sight.

Consider trust. A lot of people are slow to trust. Their default level of trust is about 40% and you earn more.

Very few people understand that a low trust approach reduces positive asymmetry.

Most of the time people deserve to be trusted by default. Perhaps 3% of the time they take advantage of you and make you look foolish. In an effort to avoid what happens 3% of the time, people forgo asymmetric upside.

Not only does a low trust approach eliminate the upside, but you spend your time looking over your shoulder worrying about how someone might take advantage of you. That’s no way to live.

High trust people want to be around other high trust people.​

I’m pretty trustworthy by default. And while some people have taken advantage of me, I still prefer my approach because there is no ceiling on what’s possible. The three largest business deals of my life have all been high-trust deals.

A low trust approach might put a floor on how often you get taken advantage of, but it puts a ceiling on what’s possible.

— Shane Parrish
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“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.”

— Mahmdou Darwish

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“Listen to me, your body is not a temple.
Temples can be destroyed and desecrated.

Your body is a forest —
thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood.
You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”

— Beau Taplin, Temples

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

— https://twitter.com/GetWiser/status/1497764631946932225

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