Growth

I get that some people might see this differently. Maybe they’d say tying learning to deadlines or stakes adds too much pressure. And they’re not wrong—pressure can be a lot. But it’s also what makes you show up. It’s what forces you to stop thinking about how to start and actually start. And I don’t think the pressure has to kill the joy. The joy... See more

WIBTAL • Learning’s Cool, but Doing Is Better

learning's cool but doing is better

The thing about being self-taught is that it often comes with a quiet sense of inferiority. Not because you are inferior, but because you’re convinced there’s something you skipped over—something a structured process would have taught you.

Jolaade x.com

Better to know you’re bad for a season than pretend you’re good for a lifetime. You're not struggling from imposter syndrome. You're a student and pretending to be a teacher. No students say they feel like frauds for trying to learn.You're a fraud when you get up to teach the class and you've never done it.

-Alex Hormozi

Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you

Dune Quotes x.com

I think about this a lot: how learning needs to be tied to something real. Not just deadlines but stakes. It doesn’t have to be high pressure, but there has to be a reason to care. Without that, it’s easy to get stuck in a loop of tutorials and practice for the sake of practice.

And honestly, there’s something about practice for its own sake that... See more

WIBTAL • Learning’s Cool, but Doing Is Better

learning's cool but doing is better

We build our own prisons and serve as our own jail keepers, but I’ve concluded that our parents and the society at large have a hand in building our prisons. They create roles for us – and self images – that hold us captive for a long time.

The individual who is intent on self-renewal will have to deal with ghosts of the past – the memory of earlier

“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”

― Anne Bogart

Anne Bogart Quotes (Author of A Director Prepares)

the deeper you go into any one thing, the more you find everything else quietly waiting there. steve reich discovered this in music: "whatever you pursue, if you really begin to pursue it thoroughly and you really get into many, many aspects of it, it flowers and blooms and begins to get into areas you never would have imagined were possible." what... See more

Ashwin Sharma x.com