How To Enjoy The Process
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How To Enjoy The Process
The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
Bertrand Russell • In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
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I think that one of the things, again, my son has been such a blessing to me over the past couple of years because I think that is an example of I almost missed him. I was so focused on solving him and preparing the path for him with his ADHD and his challenges there that I was exerting my efficacy on his life, and I almost didn’t know him. And... See more
We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238
To quote the always-brilliant Philip Kiely: “First you do X, then you make content about doing X, then you make content about that content… One day you realize you haven’t done X for six months. And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction.”
Shaun Wang • The Meta-Creator Ceiling
“Happiness is a 2×2 Matrix. Don't overlook the value of not having what you don't want” - David Epstein
Human beings care about harmonies. About originality. About the tension that comes from the new. And we care about the dynamics between and among people who are working together.
That’s why we listen to the whole song, not one musician’s isolation track.
Working With Rick Rubin on ‘The Creative Act: A Way of Being’
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In 1997, at the age of 27, Matt Damon won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay ( Good Will Hunting ). After Damon won the Oscar, he went home, sat down on his sofa, and looked at the award. As he looked at it, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a heartbreaking thought: “I remember very clearly looking at that award and thinking, ‘Imagine chasing... See more
Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Pacific Salmon, a Heartbreaking Thought, the .01%, the Pinnacle, the Nobel Prize, and the Work Itself
When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important... See more