What Shane Parrish thinks about patience

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Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.

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1. 12 Apr 2016

   Our readingA 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.

   Their wordsA 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.

   ↗Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperformfs.blog 2nd of 3 in this piece