Claudiu
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Claudiu
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Bounce, don’t break: resilience isn’t about avoiding knockdowns; it’s about how you use them as launching pads.
-Shane Parrish
This is the day. There is no other day. This is the day. In other words, I release every thought that smacks of, “Maybe we can do this some other time.” There is no other time. Today is the Superbowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die.
Steven Pressfield • Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be
There’s an audience out there that will appreciate your work. Whether that audience is big or small is anyone’s guess, but if you’re chasing numbers, you might not ever find that audience.
There is real joy to be found in not immediately understanding exactly what a book is doing. Joy in seeing that something outside of the narrative structure we’re familiar with is at play; joy in discovering a different sense of vastness and fluidity. Joy in waiting, patiently, with rich anticipation, for the seemingly disparate pieces of a narrative to mesh, to become something huge and beautiful. Joy in realizing, several chapters into a book, that you could not possibly say what it was “about” until reading to the end, and maybe not even then.
Putting both hospitality and excellence on our list was a way of recognizing that success was going to come from approaching the problem of hospitality vs. excellence in the most difficult way possible: in order to succeed, we needed to be good at both. This wasn’t an either/or—it was an and. Later, I would learn that the management guru Roger
... See moreWill Guidara • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Strategy is the methodology.
Creative is the method
Creative is the method
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Creativity and Strategy
Students aren’t cheating because AI made it easier—they’re cheating because, for generations, we’ve taught them that the grade is more important than the knowledge — Terry Underwood
Life is a photograph where the circumstances fall short of ideal and the results are absolute. However, within the flawed photo, there is beauty in finality. It is humbling to relinquish control of the work to limitations. It is freeing to accept the outcome. There is a magic in letting chance and kismet fill the cracks where your diligence and... See more