Charlotte Jackson
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Charlotte Jackson
are you serious?
people who take life seriously and go against the grain
your twenties are the time when you master what you think you’re supposed to do. But in your thirties, when you’ve figured out what you like and don’t like, and you’re more confident, you can move on to what you really want to do, which might be totally different.
Ina Garten • Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
The Metaphor: Jackhammers vs. Hummingbirds
Jackhammers are people who latch onto a passion early and remain relentlessly focused:
... See more“Jackhammers are people like me. You put a passion in our hands and we don’t look up, we don’t veer, and we’re just focused on that until the end of time.”
“It’s efficient, you get a lot done. But we tend to be obsessive an
The amateur believes that, before she can act, she must receive permission from some Omnipotent Other — a lover or spouse, a parent, a boss, a figure of authority.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Me before moving to new york
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
They will try to entice us to get stoned with them or fuck off with them or waste time with them, as we've done in the past, and when we refuse, they will turn against us and talk us down behind our backs. At the same time, new people will appear in our lives. They will be people who are facing their own fears and who are conquering them. These peo
... See moreSteven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Reading Well - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water Reading Well
Simon Sarrismap.simonsarris.comcase for reading fiction and its importance on your perspective on the world
The amateur spends his time in the past and the future. He permits himself to fear and to hope. The professional has taught himself to banish these distractions. When Stephen Sondheim makes a hat, he is thinking of nothing else. He is immersed. He loses himself in the work and in the moment.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
out. I needed to see different things to remind me what I was, in contrast to what I already knew. To see clearly what I had become.