Mike "Bagel"
Once you've honed in on your intrinsic motivations, the next step is ensuring your actions and goals are in complete harmony with your values. Clearly define what you stand for and use these principles as a compass for your decisions. This alignment doesn't just boost motivation—it ensures your journey is meaningful and satisfying.
from What Drives You Towards Your Desired Reality? by Veronica Joce
- For an idea to resonate, it needs to do the following:
Something in my subjective experience or previous insight connects to the idea in front of me and gives it potency. The connection between two ideas always carries the possibility of a third, new idea.
It moves me through language. I might find the phrasing particularly harmonious, the choice of ... See more The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level.
from It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity by newyorker.com
Awe is one of the most profound feelings humans can experience.
When you are amazed by a vibrant sunset, or watching a baby take its first steps — you’re reminded of how insignificant you (and your problems) are.
You feel connected to something much greater and more meaningful.
Think about the last time you were truly awe-struck. Remember how those mo
... See morefrom How to Be "Rich" in Awe by Jade Bonacolta
Each of us are already storytellers, but often we’re not the authors of them.
We are storytellers by default—assigning meaning to our experiences according to the cultural and familial scripts we’ve inherited and missing the chance to choose our own beginnings, endings, and adventures in the middle.
No one lacks meaning in their lives.
What many of us
... See morefrom Why You Should Start Living in the Past by Rick Lewis
I know that most people overrate the difficulty of hard conversations, and underrate how good it is to have them. Conflict avoidance slowly rots your whole life, and many people are about eight awkward discussions from a much-improved existence. In other words, go squash all of your beefs.
from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin
- But finally, I’d like to argue that following the news isn’t just a waste of time, it’s actively unhealthy. Edward Tufte notes that when he used to read the New York Times in the morning, it scrambled his brain with so many different topics that he couldn’t get any real intellectual work done the rest of the day.
from I Hate the News (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) by Aaron Swartz
I think of my parents and all the people who over-consume the news
GPS
G rowth → P urpose → S erenity
In other words, grow into your purpose to achieve serenity. In simple terms, you grow when you set out on a journey, en route you are more likely to (re)discover your purpose, and when you do, your reward will be inner peace. That is how everything clicks into place.
from All the Way: Why It’s Important to Carve Your Own Path by Kinga Lewandowska
knew the fastest way to count quarters by hand, roll them, and exchange them for bills with vendors in the public market where I performed.
I knew how to juggle 5 balls.
I knew how to move quietly backstage during a theater performance.
I had traveled by bicycle across Australia entertaining in town squares, got chased out of the country by local perf
... See morefrom Why You Should Start Living in the Past by Rick Lewis