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Think wisely.
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Perhaps it’s more helpful to think of collecting books like collecting wine: you pick up novels you know you will enjoy at some time in the future. That time might be right now, or it might be next year. Like a bottle of Sancerre, you’ll bring it down off the shelf at the perfect moment, when you’ll enjoy it most. That’s okay, even encouraged, beca... See more
Luck is unevenly distributed, unpredictable and unfair. If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be luck.
Seth Godin • Self Awareness and the Luck-Skill Gap
there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
"The prize for doing great work is that you get to do more of it."
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not
Christa Nicholson • The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
“The past is neutral. It only matters when the ego turns it into a story to explain your present.”