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A choice with no immediate payoff is not necessarily a poor one: many extraordinary things come from what is first-order negative and second-order positive.

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patience
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patience Waiting for results: whether patience compounds into the thing that wins, or impatience is how work gets done fast.

Second-order thinking

Which mental models help you think better?under our view: The second-order effect is what decides most outcomes, so ask "and then what?"

What Shane Parrish actually said

  1. Shane Parrish Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast
    A lot of extraordinary things in life are the result of things that are first-order negative, second order positive. So just because things look like they have no immediate payoff, doesn’t mean that’s the case.

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