Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
Far from glamorizing a surreptitious, disciplined busyness, Austen’s story, when told properly, seems to promote the opposite of this approach. Austen was not able to produce creatively during the crowded periods of her life. It was only when, through circumstance and contrivance, her obligations were greatly reduced that Austen was able, finally,
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painfully true
When you’re living in the real world, there’s space to reflect, to choose which global issues to engage with and which to leave to others, and to have genuine conversations. In reality, people who think differently or live differently aren’t necessarily villains in need of cancellation. Where social media can feel like a space where everything is
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One of the things I’ve found just for kind of managingmyself is that if I try to just go straight into the day, almost every morning when I wake up and read through my emails and get the news, it’s almost like getting punched with sort of like a ton of new context. And it’s like, “Okay, I need to internalize this.” So I found that doing... See more
Mark Zuckerberg • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More (#582)
“Grieving the loss of good things isn’t pathological. It’s human—something that happens to social animals with a deep natural desire to love and be loved. If anything is pathological, it’s pretending we’re not animals of this sort—that we’re somehow better off not loving than loving and losing the good things we love. Stoic practice encour- ages
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Option 3: take a breath. Become conscious of the anxiety this sort of message stirs in you. Consider the possibility that building the next phase of your career around the fear of getting left behind might be a really bad basis for producing the kind of work people will want to pay you for – not to mention (and not unrelatedly) a rather grim way to... See more
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