Agalia Tan
- Thinly veiled insults (“Really?”/“That’s weird”/“…interesting”) are often compliments delivered by people who are at odds with themselves. Take them in stride.
- Alexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world.
"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See morefrom Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
- The day I compromise what I write to satisfy the whims of some corporate overlord is the day that I quit writing for a career.
from The Art of Scaling Taste by Evan Armstrong
- You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.
from What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture by Derek Thompson
- scrolling narrows the field of my curiosity. I take what I find there; I don’t make adventurous or consequential inquiries. I used to sit with boredom all the time—oh, I flinched and chafed, but I always found my way out, or around it. In habitually checking messages, I lost the chance for intimacy with slow dawnings, the feel of big decisions send... See more
from The Ecology of Attention by Lia Purpura
- Create a “story bank.” Collect and document interesting stories, anecdotes, and insights you come across. These can be used in writing and speaking. Show up to dinners with these stories.
from How to win in your 20s
A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
“The secret to change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Dan Millman
from How To Think About Change by Thomas Klaffke
- t you can shape yourself by reshaping your relationships. By changing who you are addressing, and the responses you garner, you steer your development. You become more agentic.
from A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox
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