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Everything Else is Secondary

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Welcome to Brain Food, a weekly newsletter full of timeless ideas and insights you can use in life and work. (Read the archives). Not subscribed? Learn more and sign up. Telling yourself you’ll do it tomorrow is how dreams die. The problem with success is that it teaches you the wrong lessons. What worked yesterday becomes religion, and religions don’t adapt. People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It’s not. It’s about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind. When the cost of mistakes is high, we’re paralyzed with fear. When the cost of mistakes is low, we can move fast and adapt. Make mistakes cheap, not rare. Poet Christine Evangelou on a cluttered mind: “A crowded mind leaves no space for a peaceful heart.” Steve Jobs on courage: “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer on the need to not only accumulate inf

Everything Else is Secondary No. 641 – August 10, 202 5 Welcome to Brain Food, a weekly newsletter full of timeless ideas and insights you can use in life and work. ( Read the archives ). Not subscribed? Learn more and sign up . Tiny Thoughts Telling yourself you’ll do it tomorrow is how dreams die. The problem with success is that it teaches you the wrong lessons. What worked yesterday becomes religion, and religions don’t adapt. People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It’s not. It’s about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing

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