In-Spire
Random stuff I come across
In-Spire
Ok, this year I’m going to get better at this. Next year, that.’ And so forth and so on. And patiently, I got better.” Patiently, he repeats. “It was piece by piece. It was the consistency of the work. The consistency of the work: Monday, get better. Tuesday, get better. Wednesday, get better. You do that over a period of time—three, four, five, si... See more
Patience. Be better everyday.
Variance Equals Strength
Try new things, do things differently. Experiment.
What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not a homeostatic equilibrium, but rather the will to meaning, guiding him toward a future that is yet to be made his own.
- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via Max McCoy on youtube)
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world.
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
Dylano • Writing in the 21st Century: Redux
Nature loves courage. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.
Amazing writing.
One day, the farmer’s one and only horse runs away. The farmer’s neighbors come by to say they can’t believe it, “What bad luck!” The farmer shrugs, “Good luck? Bad luck? It’s impossible to know.” A few days later, the horse returns with a herd of wild horses, and the neighbors swing by again, “What good luck!” The farmer shrugs, “Good luck? Bad lu... See more
A story I’d heard before and I love
I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.” He was then asked, Who didn’t make it out of Vietnam? “Oh, that’s easy,” Stockdale said. “The optimists. Oh, they we... See more
Faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of circumstance. Don’t hang your hopes on individual events.
“By this they mean that subtle physiological changes in their bodies provide cues helping them rapidly select from a range of possible trades the one that just ‘feels right.’ Our findings suggest that the gut feelings informing this decision are more than the mythical entities of financial lore — they are real physiological signals, valuable ones a... See more
David Gelles • ‘Trust Your Gut’ Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says (Published 2016)
pounce on intuition and “the right feeling” when you can.
When Mr. Soros was actively managing his fund, he would suffer from backaches, and said that he “used the onset of acute pain as a signal that there was something wrong in my portfolio.”
David Gelles • ‘Trust Your Gut’ Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says (Published 2016)
traders who follower their intuition and “are in tune with their heartbeat” make more money
After chatting with a fellow commuter, people were in a much better mood. But when asked to predict what it would be like to talk to someone on their train ride, people expected that it would be better to sit in silence rather than talk.