awareness

Your life history impacts you much less than your stories about it.

i think too many people are assuming that they can turn on a "artist" switch after years of making money doing something. probably most confusing while working broadly in the creator world don't underestimate how much the game you are playing changes who you are

My most effective life hack has been to learn to be with my inner experience, just as it is. It changes everything. Unfortunately, most people want a more complicated solution and are dissatisfied with that answer. I just sit with that. :)

It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling responsible for other people's emotions, reactions, and inner turmoil. We have an innate desire to be understood and accepted. So when others seem upset with us, judge us, or want us to change, we leap to explain, rationalize, and pacify. But in our quest to please or appease, we often lose ourselves.... See more

What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness. No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering.

When you're busy enough, "boredom" isn't a thing - it just feels like a break. It's fantastic and rare. A chance to think, to put things together in your head, be intentional with moves forward, and actually really wonderful.

Spontaneity is great but life is just easier and everything goes far better when we have protocols.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent; it is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.