Nathan Koerschner

“Your most stable beliefs, the ones that actually modulate your behavior, aren’t about life purposes; they are about momentum management. You are more likely to switch religions than to switch from an impatient to a patient temperament.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making

“Work is simply whatever we must do to get from one decision to the next.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making

“beliefs create or constrain possibilities, desires lead to preferences among them, and intentions represent commitments to specific courses of action. Each of the primitive elements can evolve in time, which is why mental models have momentum.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making

“What critics miss, however, is that there is no such thing as non-narrative thought, free of possible worlds and ongoing enactments. There are always multiple narratives at work, framing our perceptions, memories, active thoughts, decisions and actions.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making