#63: the more you know
👋 Welcome to the 63rd issue of Out of Curiosity, a weekly newsletter promoting ideas to help get 1% better everyday.
My name is Reza, and every week, I go through nearly 100 pieces of content (from books and podcasts to newsletters and tweets), and bring you the best in this newsletter.
In this issue:
🎯 Choose good quests
💭 Be normal
💬 The kindest people
🖼️ Lifestyle design 101
🎯 Choose good quests
Quests tend to manifest as an objective we center our lives around. Your quest might be to reach a specific milestone: to become a senator, to publish a book, to make a million dollars. But not all quests have an end state.
A good quest makes the future better than our world today, while a bad quest doesn't improve the world much at all, or even makes it worse.
A player's ability to complete their quest is a function of the quest and their own skills, resources, and powers. Quests that are easy for certain players are nearly impossible for others: Olympic runners will regularly run sub-5 minute miles during training, even though this would be an incredibly ambitious goal for most people.
💭 Be normal
Normal is not only good enough, it’s something worth fighting for. Cut yourself loose from the competition. Invest in your hobbies and your community. Deepen your friendships and forget the accolades. You just may be surprised with what’s on the other side.
💬 The kindest people
The kindest people are not born that way, they are made.
They are the sounds that have experienced so much at the hands of life, they are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson.
The kindest people do not just exist – they choose to soften where circumstance has tried to harden them, they choose to believe in goodness, because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary.
They have seen firsthand why tenderness is so important in this world.
– Bianca Sparacino
🖼️ Lifestyle design 101
Instead of doing things you dislike for decades and deferring living to the future, lifestyle design is figuring out the life you want and living it in the present.
Do you know what’s most important to you in life?
What does your personality type say about your preferences and how you interact with the world?
What does an ideal 24-hour day look like to you? How does a normal weekday look? What about a weekend?
✨ One last thing…
👋 Until next week,
