Claudiu
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A sparking curious mind
Claudiu
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The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
Money can represent freedom, safety, experience, generosity, attractiveness, power, or whatever you want. But really, money is as neutral as math. Because it’s neutral, people have projected all kinds of meaning onto it. Your biggest obstacle to getting rich is the harmful meaning you’ve attached to it. Your biggest advantage can be projecting a
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Degree of strength of will or perseverance. Quiet determination to stick to a course once decided upon. Tendency not to abandon tasks in the face of obstacles. Perseverance, tenacity, doggedness.
Angela Duckworth • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
All you have to do is just be 5% better than everyone else who’s really bad at it. You don’t have to get everything perfect… you just have to be a little bit better so you can survive the war of attrition.
Taste Is the New Intelligence
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Octavia Butler did not wait to feel inspired before she began. Long before she became one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, she was keeping notebooks that read less like romantic musings and more like a quiet contract with herself. Inside them: daily writing goals, affirmations written and rewritten, reminders to get up early, to... See more
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