AUTHOR | JEANETTE WINTERSON
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AUTHOR | JEANETTE WINTERSON
Author Anna Quindlen on building a spirit:
“There are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or ... See more
“There are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or ... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the Cycle of Improvement, Self-Doubt, and Building a Spirit (June 18, 2020) | James Clear
Isaac Feldman added
I felt arrows of rage rising in me, fraught images spreading like bloodstains. There’s no point, I told myself. I reached for the ordinary decoys. It won’t get you anywhere. Think of the outcome you want and make sure you are moving towards it. Got to be practical. That’s what I always told the girls at school. There is so much in life that doesn’t... See more
Mason Currey • Life advice from a great 2021 novel
Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Jenna Guarascio added
If you really want to cultivate your passion and purpose, you’re always going to need a way to pay for that passion and purpose. But don’t expect this to happen quickly, and find stopgap measures in the interim. I was a bartender for the first decade of my writing career,
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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So let me ask you: How are you being? Not doing, or going. Being
Jeanette Winterson • SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
sari added
I guess if we’re talking about joy, writing, and being a fully rendered person in the world, my main sources of liveliness are so human and obvious they might seem facile: 1) loving the people I love with full throttle abandon – my guy, our kids, my mom and dad, our gaggle of brothers, my army of girlfriends. So that’s advice, maybe: make as many g... See more
Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us
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Passion Pays, Genevieve de Lacaze says that “passion is an expression of who you are, not what you do. Passion is putting who you are in what you do”.
Noam Kostucki • You are Your Brand!: Everything you know about branding but never thought applied to you
Lives interweave with other lives, and out of the tapestry arise hints at answers to questions that raze to the bone of life: What are the building blocks of character, of contentment, of lasting achievement? How does a person come into self-possession and sovereignty of mind against the tide of convention and unreasoning collectivism? Does genius ... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
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