Jonathan
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Jonathan
As I hope I’ve made clear by now, people are eager, often desperate, to be seen, heard, and understood. And yet we have built a culture, and a set of manners, in which that doesn’t happen. The way you fix that is simple, easy, and fun: Ask people to tell you their stories.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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look at the problem that exists and turn it into an opportunity.
That’s what creativity is.
That’s what creativity is.
Dave Trott • MISUNDERSTANDING CREATIVITY - Dave Trott's Blog
Getting to the root of it
When we envy other people, we often focus on the aspects of their lives that we want, while conveniently ignoring the parts that we don't. The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence until you're standing in someone else's yard. If you were to trade places with them, you'd get the good parts of their life, but it might cost you th... See more
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300 Arguments: Essays
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Sarah Manguso's '300 Arguments' is a collection of concise reflections that explore themes like desire, relationships, and mortality. The work presents individual aphorisms that gradually build a narrative of human experience.
In her book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, Annie Duke says, "When your identity is what you do, then what you do becomes hard to abandon, because it means quitting who you are."
Knowing when to walk away from relationships, careers, and creative endeavors that are going nowhere prevents unnecessary suffering.
Knowing when to walk away from relationships, careers, and creative endeavors that are going nowhere prevents unnecessary suffering.