GCF
But squeezing yourself into a small, easily explainable cage you know you’ll quickly outgrow just to avoid the pain of struggling to explain who you are to other people is, in my opinion, just avoidance of facing your full potential.
concentration
there are two ways you can live: you can devote your life to staying in your comfort zone, or you can work on your freedom. In other words, you can devote your whole life to the process of making sure everything fits within your limited model, or you can devote your life to freeing yourself from the limits of your model.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
What’s one creative thing you’d do today if social media didn’t exist?
Whatever your answer is—go do that instead.
Because at the end of the day, going viral doesn’t mean anything.
The house always wins.
Keep creating and repeating (on your terms).
I feel like an anti-entrepreneur, in that it feels completely against my nature to come up with ideas that make money. It’s like I can conceive of every kind of idea except that kind.
There are plenty of well-documented reasons to distrust Instagram — the platform where one is never not branding, never not making Facebook money, never not giving Facebook one’s data — but most unnerving are the ways in which it has led me to distrust myself. After countless adventures through the black hole, my propensity to share, perform, and e... See more
Tavi Gevinson • Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’ve ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.
Maria Popova • The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
There is no way of getting it perfect. There is no complete, no finish line, no done. There is simply “What’s the next experiment?” There is only play.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
Instead of planning, simply become. Acting as if is how we acquire identity.