东西
Purchase the most recent tourist guidebook to your home town or region. You’ll learn a lot by playing the tourist once a year.
What you actually pay for something is at least twice the listed price because of the energy， time， money needed to set it up， learn， maintain， repair， and dispose of at the end. Not all prices appear on labels. Actual costs are 2x listed prices.
90% of everything is crap. If you think you don’t like opera， romance novels， TikTok， country music， vegan food， NFTs， keep trying to see if you can find the 10% that is not crap.
Keep all your things visible in a hotel room， not in drawers， and all gathered into one spot. That way you’ll never leave anything behind. If you need to have something like a charger off to the side， place a couple of other large items next to it， because you are less likely to leave 3 items behind than just one.
When checking references for a job applicant， employers may be reluctant or prohibited from saying anything negative， so leave or send a message that says， “Get back to me if you highly recommend this applicant as super great.” If they don’t reply take that as a negative.
Courtesy costs nothing. Lower the toilet seat after use. Let the people in the elevator exit before you enter. Return shopping carts to their designated areas. When you borrow something， return it better shape (filled up， cleaned) than when you got it.
没人会和你自己一样对你所拥有的东西印象深刻。（Morgan Housel《金钱心理学》里面的一句话，可以理解为禀赋效应：即，由于情感上的偏见，人们在自己已经拥有的东西上比尚未获得的东西拥有更大的价值）
No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
Take one simple thing — almost anything — but take it extremely seriously， as if it was the only thing in the world， or maybe the entire world is in it — and by taking it seriously you’ll light up the sky.
Something does not need to be perfect to be wonderful. Especially weddings.
When making something， always get a few extras — extra material， extra parts， extra space， extra finishes. The extras serve as backups for mistakes， reduce stress， and fill your inventory for the future. They are the cheapest insurance.
Every person you meet knows an amazing lot about something you know virtually nothing about. Your job is to discover what it is， and it won’t be obvious.
This is the best time ever to make something. None of the greatest， coolest creations 20 years from now have been invented yet. You are not late.
Your work will be endless， but your time is finite. You cannot limit the work so you must limit your time. Hours are the only thing you can manage.
Everything is hard before it is easy. The day before something is a breakthrough， it’s a stupid idea.
If you borrow something， try to return it in better shape than you received it. Clean it， sharpen it， fill it up.
Your passion in life should fit you exactly； but your purpose in life should exceed you. Work for something much larger than yourself.
Always cut away from yourself.
To be wealthy， accumulate all those things that money can’t buy.
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has a name for. If you possibly can， work where there are no words for what you do.
That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it.