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Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. Susan Sontag
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Matt Klein added 10mo ago
Writing in a notebook is about transferring things from the world to your brain, not to your notebook.
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Matt Klein added 10mo ago
Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad.
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Keely Adler added 9mo ago
People who just talk about themselves tend to be boring. People who let slip something about themselves while talking about something that excites them are invariably fascinating.
from Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36) by Russell Davies
Keely Adler added 9mo ago
‘Mindfulness is the process of actively noticing new things. When you do that, it puts you in the present. It makes you more sensitive to context and perspective. It’s the essence of engagement. And it’s energy-begetting, not energy-consuming.’
from Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36) by Russell Davies
Keely Adler added 9mo ago
Virginia Woolf described her ideal diary: I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously
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Keely Adler added 9mo ago
The French have a term: déformation professionnelle. It’s the way your profession influences the way you see the world.
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Keely Adler added 9mo ago
There’s a certain magic in collecting your own set of secrets about the world.
from Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36) by Russell Davies
Keely Adler added 9mo ago
The act of writing is helpful and doing it in public even more so. Regular writing, even for an audience of one, makes curiosity a habit, not a personality type.
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Keely Adler added 9mo ago