An Expensive Emotion

fs.blog · 440 words · saved by 1 readers

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. Critics arrive before customers. Overthinking is underdoing with better vocabulary. Impatience is an expensive emotion. Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform profits when you trade. Meanwhile, the boring investor who indexed and touched nothing decades ago owns your neighborhood. Who’s winning? The patient inherit everything the impatient leave behind. John Steinbeck on ignoring the finish line and starting: “Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.” This Larry Winget quote reminds me of something I say often, “don’t tell me your priorities, show me your calendar.” “It’s not that we don’t have time. It’s that

An Expensive Emotion No. 636 – July 6, 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 Critics arrive before customers. Overthinking is underdoing with better vocabulary. Impatience is an expensive emotion. Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform profits when you trade. Meanwhile, the boring investor who indexed and touched nothing decades ago owns your neighborhood. Who&#821

An Expensive Emotion

related reading