Citizenship in a Republic
Theodore Roosevelt famously said, “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” So often it seems that we want to work easily at work worth doing. We want our work to be helpful and respected, but we do not want to struggle through our work. We want our stomachs to be flat and our arms to be st... See more
James Clear • What I Do When I Feel Like Giving Up
Brené flew under the radar for a long time, until she came across Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “arena” quote (“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. . . .”
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The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.
American cultural critic Baratunde Thurston launched his podcast called ‘How to Citizen,’ explicitly reimagining ‘Citizen’ as a verb and providing inspiration to his listeners on how to participate in collective action and governance in its widest sense. ‘This is not a show about how a bill becomes a law,’ he says. Instead it’s about ‘who has the p
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I have discovered in my time here that the people who inspire me the most are those who left the hallway, shut the door behind them and settled in. It’s Fred Rogers recording Episode 895 of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood because he was committed to advancing a humane model of children’s television. It’s Dorothy Day sitting with the same outcast folks nig... See more
Pete Davis • “A Counterculture of Commitment” Speech
Ever a student of history, Dimon sent Paulson a note including a citation from a speech Theodore Roosevelt made in Paris in 1910: “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
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