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- Delaying action often carries hidden costs that can be easily overlooked:
Missed Opportunities
When we don't take action, we miss out on valuable chances to grow, learn, and succeed.
Wasted Time
Time is precious. Every day spent hesitating is a day that could have been used to build, create, and advance toward your goals. Procrastination extends ti... See morefrom The Hidden Costs of Not Taking Action + Journal Prompts + Mentorship
the hidden cost of delaying action
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 way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their product.
taste is extremely important
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
MARGARET YOUNG
practice
repetition
maintenance
care
delayed gratification
unfolding
becoming
slow
soft
From Ezra Klein:
AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that
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the art of curating// taste
- “You’re not healing to handle the trauma, you know how to do that already. You’re healing to handle the joy.”
from A Big Intimate Catch Up:
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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 sheet of paper? And then watched it, like... Ripple forever?
That's how you should treat visualisation.
Make your mind as still as a country lake. That way, when you drop the faintest thought into it late
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