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“cool” - Tasshin
whatever it is that you like doing, and you just start doing what you think is cool and interesting, everything changes. And we are all influenced by other things. Well, nobody else thinks that’s cool. And we might even think we’re being authentic, but we’re still looking at something else.
Ben Settle • BizWorld: How to Create an Irresistible Business Universe Your Customers Love to Buy from and Hate to Leave
Coolness is an elusive concept without a universal definition, allowing everyone to have their own interpretation. Some people’s entire job is making sure you don’t remember that.
Totally Recommend • Death of the Cool Girl
Natalie Audelo and added
Build a world. Make your projects and work a vessel for self-expression. Make your software match your vibe. Make reading your book feel like it feels to talk with you. Customize, make it bespoke, put yourself into it instead of doing what you feel you should. This has all kinds of benefits (reducing burn out for instance) but especially helps with... See more
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sari and added
And I hear all sorts of interesting worries and anxieties from people. Lots of people say something like, “Oh, I would like to be more playful and passionate, but that’s not what the world cares about. The world only cares about what is popular, what is controversial, what makes money.” To which I say – so what? You don’t have to care about what “t... See more
andrea and added
To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool. I think the best test is one Gino Lee taught me: to try to do things that would make your friends say wow.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
We all relate to Sonny the Cuckoo Bird. We pursue that which retreats from us, and coolness is always a bear market. Coolness is always what others seem to have naturally—an unspecific, delicious, chocolately paradigm we must pilfer through subterfuge. It drives us, for lack of a better term, coo coo. And part of the reason we struggle is because t
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