Josh Terry

Chaos is the garden. Order is the fence. The garden is a place full of beauty and creativity where anything can happen. The fence is an impressive structure that’s impenetrable and harsh. But a garden can’t create beautiful things if it’s not protected. Also, it will take over everything if it’s not contained. And a…

It turns out what makes you not miserable is also what makes you not poor and it’s this. Only compare yourself to people that are better than you in ways that you can change. Social media can make you better and it can make you worse. If you follow people that are better than you…

It’s really wild. We learn pretty young that working hard and waiting will get us what we want. And if you’ve really learned this lesson then you actually want to work hard and are willing to wait to get the result you want. But human physiology isn’t actually built that way. You don’t get a…

Some people don’t need to push their limits. They need to limit their push. If you’re ambitious and you work so hard that you’re tired most of the time then you’re probably pushing too hard and in so many places that you’re making yourself stupid. You’re the person who has to make better decisions if…

mistakes are very strange creatures. we call them failures but they tell us what to do next. they’re teachers and guides. they’re every single drug that didn’t pass the clinical trials so that we could get the right ones administered. They’re every single ad that didn’t work in the split testing process. They’re every single…

the cold is the big black. it’s the inevitable end that no one can escape. and when we feel the sensation of cold a part of us knows this. when the ice touches our skin something deep down inside of us says, be careful… run. but the sensation of cold is merely discomfort. and the…

You don’t get to do everything. You can’t do anything you want to when you grow up. And you can achieve things beyond your wildest dreams. The last generation raised us to believe we could do anything and they were right in the sense that humans are infinitely variable. But in their pursuit to make…

Creativity requires silence. It requires that you stop your activity long enough to get bored. We live in a world of distraction. And we have minds that fear the silence so much that we don’t let ourselves notice when we’re avoiding the quiet moments that spark ideas. Anxiety is future problem solving and boredom is…

Being slow to anger is a positive trait. But if you tend to get angry after you’ve had a conversation and the other person has already left, if have to do the math and carry the one to figure out if you’re angry, that’s not being slow to anger. That’s being out of touch with…

When having a conversation try to establish positive intent and when the other person is struggling to come up with the right words encourage them to say it badly. Words are tremendously difficult. And talking with someone with the assumption that you have to phrase everything correctly tends to make people struggle with what to…