things to come back to when i'm feeling meh
Your work is never going to be good enough (for everyone). But it’s already good enough (for someone).
Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.
Gracie Vansubstack.comJacob Collier & Chris Martin - Fix You (Live from the O2 Arena)
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Life is full of suffering. It’s unevenly distributed in tragic ways — I would never dispute that. But even the best and luckiest and most privileged life has an unfortunate share of suffering in it. And there are choices to be made: How much do we focus on it? How much do we dwell on it? How much do we speak of it? How do we speak of it? And how... See more
Opinion | Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’
…I’m not suggesting we shouldn’t speak about trauma and upset. As I said, I think it was a great revolution in our culture that people have permission to do so. But I share the sense that something was slightly lost in these generations.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching:
Alas! Misery lies under happiness,
and happiness sits on misery, alas!
Who knows where it will end?
Nothing is certain.
The normal changes into the monstrous,
the fortunate into the unfortunate,
and our bewilderment goes on and on.
“Life involves making a decision so the spirits can rush in”
- Sheila Heti
PAUSE: Postpone Action Until Serenity Enters.