Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
The happiest people I know create—they write, take beautiful photos, work with wood, make music.
The unhappiest consume—endlessly scrolling through others’ highlight reels, sensationalized news stories, content designed to hijack their nervous system.
Creativity fills the... See more
Ryan Hennesseysubstack.comThe weird thing is that the word “leader” itself is cliché and boring, but when you come across somebody who actually is a real leader, that person isn’t cliché or boring at all; in fact he’s sort of the opposite of cliché and boring.... See more
Obviously, a real leader isn’t just somebody who has ideas you agree with, nor is it just somebody you happen to
David Foster Wallace on Leadership, Illustrated and Read by Debbie Millman
Identification with a thing: be it a group, a sport team, an ideology, a political space, a job, you name it. Even your name, now that I mention it. You were a child and you shit your pants, but you don’t identify with that BECAUSE NONE OF IT IS PERMANENT. Get away from this obsessive need to fit in through identification, go and stand alone
Nicholas Goodey • Frustration
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
—Baba Dioum
Every statistic you come across, everything you read in a textbook, everything you learn from parents or teachers, everything you see or read in the news or on social media, every tenet of conventional wisdom—it’s all indirect knowledge. That’s why perhaps the most important skill of a skilled thinker is knowing when to trust.