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ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them

“You’re not healing to handle the trauma, you know how to do that already. You’re healing to handle the joy.”

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My hus

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i want to create my job. not hunt it

me of the now running clubs active wear garmin or apple watch need to send this email email sits in drafts for days never sends the email talks to the

yoga is the best thing to do that i nearly don’t do enough

Paths are made by walking. Franz Kafka

The opposite of anxiety isn’t calmness; it’s creativity.

Inconsistency sends mixed signals. Confusing. Lack of responsibility. Here..there.. hot.. cold.. Like water, you don’t want your shower water to fluct

Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the local newspaper. It’d take an hour, tops, out of their day. 1 hour ou

The faster you’re moving the more you’re in fear. The more you’re in fear, the more you’re thinking about yourself. The more you’re thinking about you

Anu Atluru writes:“I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once

things to do when i don’t know what to do read a book take a nap go for a walk listen to music and dance cloud gaze things to wear when i don’t know w

I highly recommend using lists. I make lists of what I want to accomplish each year, each month, and each day. Lists are very focusing, and they hel

my shopping list as of lately bananas avocado spinach broccoli mushrooms peaches, berries radish is on sale kale salady leafy bits onion soy yogurt an

An easy way to lose oneself is to consume so much we lose sight of who we are and what we value. Creating is the opposite. The more we create, the mor

Steve Jobs, on Microsoft: The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small

Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current tre

Nobody ever sees the not-glamorous side of making art. Everybody sees the final product. Everybody sees the show when it’s being performed or the inst

To really like my work I have to look at it with different eyes. I have to forget everyone who did it better or faster, and remind myself that no one

Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.

"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or

my cheesy oversimplification that i do think is true is that ultimately marketing is simply about publicly being in love with the problem-space that y

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydream

What percentage of history's greatest and most prolific writers did not use a Zettelkasten? More than 99%, probably. Luhmann is an exception that prov

Researchers found that 77 percent of Wikipedia articles are written by 1 percent of Wikipedia editors, and they think this is probably for the best.

To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwo

The digital garden is a personal, wiki-like space collecting ever growing, in-process notes. It’s like a far less polished blog - more wild, densely t

slow living as a portal to becoming one with the rhythms of nature

By recognizing the higher-level consequences nature optimizes for, I've come to see that people who overweigh the first-order consequences of their de

Ever throw a rock into a rolling ocean full of waves? Pretty uneventful. But have you ever dropped a tiny pebble into a lake that's as still as a she

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stret

"Whether you are an adult or child, your first attempts will often seem unimportant or foolish. The open mic night at a nearly empty bar. The early

Flatness, like scalability, is efficient. The same culture flows through the same pipes to the same net-average consumer. But since when did efficienc

Technology increasingly robs us of the mystical in our lives. Not everything needs to be fast and available and convenient. I love ideas and products

I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things w

Be curious, not judgmental.

When I am in good hands I open myself to a state of curiosity and appreciation. I allow myself to suspend preconceived notions. I give you freedom to

"Diving into your mind, through the minds of others, for me to find my own footholds within it."

I am also slowly learning that being present is not just about giving my full attention to whatever is happening right now. It is also about recognisi

Less obviously, one’s photo-a-day catalog creates a large improvement to memory. Just as hearing a few lyrics can recall to you an entire song, having

“You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.”

The brain is a terrible place to store information. Humans were born to create, not to remember.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL You can't control who buys your work. And you can't control who likes it. But you CAN control putting your work in f

Less obviously, one’s photo-a-day catalog creates a large improvement to memory. Just as hearing a few lyrics can recall to you an entire song, having