Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
It is impossible for you to become poor by giving. It is impossible for you to become wealthy without giving.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
On vacation go to the most remote place on your itinerary first bypassing the cities and then return to the big city at the end. You’ll maximize the shock of otherness in the remote, and then later you’ll welcome the familiar conveniences of a busy city on the way back.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
No secrets. You are much better off delivering unwelcome news to someone yourself directly. A secret is rarely unknown, which means inevitably someone else will share it. Meanwhile, the secret corrodes all who hold it. Resist accepting secrets.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
Do more of what looks like work to others but is play for you.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
Your best job will be one that you were unqualified for because it stretches you. In fact, only apply to jobs you are unqualified for.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. Hang out with, and learn from people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people who will disagree with you.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
You don’t need more time because you already have all the time that you will ever get; you need more focus.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
You lead by letting others know what you expect of them which may exceed what they themselves expect.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
The fact that you “can’t do” something can be embarrassing. But if you are “learning to do” something that is admirable. There are only tiny baby steps between can’t and learning.