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David Foster Wallace: "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred"
The most important food to constantly feed your brain is the problems you want it to be solving. These problems do not need to be grand like “solving world hunger.” Maybe one of your problems right now is what to get people for Christmas. You have to define clearly what those problems are and then constantly remind your brain to think about them.
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
Go out and do something.
It isn’t your room that’s
a prison, it’s yourself.
~ Sylvia Plath
It isn’t your room that’s
a prison, it’s yourself.
~ Sylvia Plath
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness. I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly... See more
