Insightful
"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.
Same direction. Completely different energy."
Same direction. Completely different energy."
3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love
I don’t have all the answers, and I get things wrong all the time. But I no longer fight against my nature. My life is filled with love, with deeply loving people, because I care too much. How could I resent that? My capacity to attach to others also my capacity to attach to the world.
— Ava
I have curated the most important and deep parts of this book into the following quotes:- You don’t know yourself unless you have to make your own choices.- We don’t understand things when we have an edge. Only when we have the perspective of coming from behind.- If we win during bear markets you’ll be fine on bull markets.- Dispersion of outcomes... See more
Tatiana Figueiredo • Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
Listening is a neglected social skill. But I know that an even more neglected social skill is candor.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
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To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying, and they comprehend what we say, it’s because
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When we have nothing, we have nothing to lose.
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
“I've been a hot mess, and I've been open to miracles anyway.”