Growth
One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe you’l... See more
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 fe... See more
And honestly, there’s something about practice for its own sake that fe... See more
WIBTAL • Learning’s Cool, but Doing Is Better
“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”
― Anne Bogart
― Anne Bogart
Anne Bogart Quotes (Author of A Director Prepares)
The Road to Self-Renewal
John Gardner discusses personal renewal, emphasizing lifelong learning, the importance of commitments, resilience in facing failures, and the pursuit of meaning and growth throughout life.
gsb-courses.stanford.eduWe 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
... See morePeople are strange. They’ll lose it over a lukewarm coffee, a slow driver, a delayed train. But when it comes to the big stuff—the years slipping by, the dreams they let rot—they barely flinch. Maybe it’s just easier to throw a fit over the small stuff, vent it out where it’s safe. Because what’s the alternative? Admit the train delay isn’t the rea
... See moreThe key is that you’ll probably do your best work when your’ve earned your colleagues ’ trust, which is the hidden value of staying put. This is especially true if your job involves making good decisions vs. doing something physical with your body. Good decisions require lots of quiet time alone in your head, maybe sitting on the couch thinking or g... See more