Failure to Launch

A lifetime project to overcome my fear of failure, reframe what it actually means to fail and take steps to grow and succeed in life - personal and professional.

This is a repository for my ideas thoughts, reflections and other lessons I learn on this journey.

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People think freedom is the power to change what you dislike about the world around you.

You can quit a job you hate. Leave a person who hurts you. Switch cities for a change of scenery. Chop your hair for a new look.

What freedom actually is: the power to change what you dislike about yourself.

Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Prioritize until it hurts

After talking about the blur I started to reflect on how to tackle in parallel some of my short, mid, and long-term goals. Different plates need to be balanced at the same time. Some of these goals are individual but most of them also involve some collective vision. When I am in a safe space, my basic needs are attended to, I'm not worried about fi... See more

Nogueira de Menezes • #016 Unlearning time

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Advice to my 21 year old self: 1. status is rented. self-respect is owned. 2. most advice assumes you know what you want. the real challenge is figuring that out. 3. the most important personal finance metric isn't net worth, it's "worry time." how many minutes per day do you

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welcome to the Open Research Institute 😎 (this is literally how you submit your work to it, make a GitHub repo with a research statement, and you will receive funding) https://t.co/IYF1hpFKh0

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Open Research Institute funds independent studies.

Shea Serrano (@sheaserrano.bsky.social)

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Repeat happy accidents

Those three words unlock our understanding of innovation and of biological evolution.

Successful outcomes often follow unpredicted actions.

If we allow ourselves to do things that might not work, we’re far more likely to discover the things that do.

And then we can repeat them.