In-Spire
“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.”from Writing in the 21st Century: Redux by Dylano
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- 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
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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
Mateo Balaña Paemen added 1mo ago
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
from ‘Trust Your Gut’ Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says (Published 2016) by David Gelles
Mateo Balaña Paemen added 2mo ago
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.”
from ‘Trust Your Gut’ Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says (Published 2016) by David Gelles
Mateo Balaña Paemen added 2mo ago
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.
from Why you should talk to strangers | BPS by Gillian Sandstrom
Mateo Balaña Paemen added 3mo ago
- Let us blaze new trails. Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art and good writing can be good selling.
Mateo Balaña Paemen added 3mo ago
- But look beneath the technique and what did you find? A sameness, a mental weariness, a mediocrity of ideas. But they could defend every ad on the basis that it obeyed the rules of advertising. It was like worshiping a ritual instead of the God.
Mateo Balaña Paemen added 3mo ago
Like worshipping a ritual instead of the god.
- 23. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
from parade.com
Mateo Balaña Paemen added 3mo ago
i.e. not cognitive dissonance