Chubmeister 5000
- I love that loop. Write, revise, write, revise. It’s like doing reps in a gym. You can’t expect that 10 pull-ups will add any discernible new muscle. But 30 pull-ups, across three sets, done thrice a week, for a year? Yeah, you’re going to notice the cumulative results of that.
from Commit to competence in this coming year
- You can't drive forward if you keep looking in the rearview mirror.
from Tweet by Steve Harvey
- People think there’s no way that you could have succeeded unless you are faking it. And sometimes I want to tell them, ‘No, the ingredient you’re missing is God.’
from Akwaeke Emezi Won’t Tell You How to Feel
- Making things is hard and I feel like that’s the most useful thing to say about it.
from Making Things Is Hard by Ava
- I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m . of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soo... See more
from On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion by Joan Didion
- On the train ride I repeated this line to myself, your allocation of effort determines your reality . Mastery requires effort sustained over time. The ability to make practice sacred through repetition. It’s the gardener, philosopher, writer, financier, artist, entrepreneur. Our roads, architecture, movies, books, music, everything beautiful in thi... See more
from highly concentrated effort by Nix 🕊
- This is one of many lessons I’ve learned through birding. It’s a humbling activity, where you can go from being an expert to an amateur just by crossing a few state lines. You have to get comfortable with the not-knowing.
from Birding into the Unknown
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather taking action despite the fear.
from Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself by Jason Liu
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
— Often attributed to Steven Covey or Viktor E. Franklfrom Space between stimulus and response