Weekly Question & Framework: May 31, 2024

Hello and welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle Weekly Question and Framework. In three minutes or less, I'll give you one question and one framework to.

Get you thinking going into the weekend.

Without further ado, let's dive right into it.

A question to unlock new possibilities. What am I not achieving simply because I haven't asked?

When Steve Jobs was 12 years old, he cold called Hewlett Packard co founder Bill Hewlett and asked for spare computer parts. It led to a summer internship and further stoked a curiosity that never went away. The story offers an important reminder Closed.

Mouths don't get fed.

There is something in your life that you deserve but haven't achieved simply because.

You haven't asked for it yet.

If you want something and you've done the work to earn it, go ask for it. Worst case? You're told no.

Best case, it's yours.

Most of the people you admire are willing to help. They received help on their journey and want to pay it forward. But you have to do the work to earn that help. The old adage to sit back and wait for good things to happen is terrible advice.

A little push goes a long way. An idea to Benefit from Inevitable chaos Hemingway's lost suitcase in 1922, Ernest Hemingway.

Was a 23 year old aspiring novelist working as a foreign correspondent in Paris for the Toronto Star newspaper. The young Hemingway, who was recently married and embracing the culture of Paris, would work for the paper during the days and then work on building his body of fiction work at night in December 1922, a bit of carelessness and bad.

Luck led to a creative tragedy.

While traveling to visit her husband, who was on assignment in Switzerland, Hemingway's wife Hadley, lost the suitcase that contained every.

Single one of his novel manuscripts and copies.

It was a devastating blow to the.

Writer who had spent years working on the pieces. I can't imagine how this must have felt.

I get extremely frustrated when I lose.

A few minutes of work due to an issue with Microsoft Word or the WI Fi. Imagine losing years of work just like that.

But rather than be completely derailed by the challenging blow, Ernest Hemingway found a.

Way to benefit from the chaos.

Feeling new time pressure. He made his writing more concise, using fewer words, shorter sentence structures and tighter paragraphs. As it turns out, that shift in style dramatically improved his overall writing quality and output. To this day, Ernest Hemingway is known for his writing style that involved short sentences and simple language. Hemingway's Lost Suitcase is a perfect example of a challenge that was turned into.

An opportunity with a growth mindset.

Adaptability is essential and it's a skill you can build. It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent.

It is the one most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin. Life is chaotic.

If you can embrace that chaos and.

Roll with it, you'll find a way to win.

That's all for today. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned something, and I hope you'll share it with others.

As always, until next time, stay curious, friends.