Break the mold
Life is a series of patterns we can break
Break the mold
Consume information from unusual sources: If you have only read the same creative journals, only visit the popular art galleries, and only see the same films, plays, and performances as everyone else, you soon start thinking like everyone else. Everything is connected and the more connections you make the more interesting your work will become.
Who proudly looks back at their old to-do lists at the end of the year and thinks: “Wow, I tackled so many tasks this year”?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Are We Too Busy to Enjoy Life?
Danger of comparing to what’s “typical” is that we inevitably aim too low
But also, that if you want to live again, you really have to let yourself die.
Leandra Medine Cohen • Three years of cereal
"The difference between a hero and a coward isn't what they feel. They're both scared. It's what they do."
Ben Horowitz • Ben Horowitz: Quit being a coward and do the hard thing
That tension – between feeling like your work defines you and being reminded how little power you have – is exhausting. You start off doing work you love, and somewhere along the way, the work becomes a performance of loving it.
Elizabeth Goodspeed • Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs
He says that a major factor in burnout is “broken steering”: people feeling, for a long period of time, that their efforts to exert control don’t do anything. They show up to work, click their mouse, make suggestions, and nothing happens, and it’s hard to tell if their work ultimately matters. There is a classic phrase for this—being a “cog in the ... See more