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Think wisely.

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 secret to change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Dan Millman

Thomas Klaffke • How To Think About Change

When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.

Programmable attention

Traffic on the way to an important meeting is only a problem because we didn’t leave twenty minutes earlier. The rent that’s hard to cover after a vacation—same thing.

The real world feels like the source of our problems. But our decisions over time might be the actual culprits, hiding in the corner.

Time is the wildcard

“The energy in me, sees the energy in you.”

– Elliott Cost, internetphonebook.net

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The source of power: “There are people that things happen to. And there are people that make things happen. The latter run the world.”

Favorite quotes

Time for some more quotable quotes:

The patient inherit everything the impatient leave behind. — Shane Parish

Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could. — Rudiger Dornbusch

I wouldn’t have seen it, if I didn’t believe it. — Marshall McLuhan

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Something Charlie Chaplin said: "Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the look-out for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

I would say, pick a subject that will stimulate you, elaborate it and

“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”

-Kevin Ashton