Inspiration
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Inspiration
when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • on not disappointing myself
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday • 6 highlights
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As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
John Collisontwitter.comat 11:56 mins:
"What really amazed me was Jerry, Julia Louis, Michael, and Jason gathered around the camera. They formed a little semicircle and a separated me from the audience. They've stood there like they were holding me like, like, like I was. I felt like I was in the womb, and they were protecting me. It's telling me, we love you. You're going to be good. You're going to be wonderful".
Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
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During this Thailand walk, our nightly conversation topics were:
- How do you stay motivated?
- What do you escape or resist?
- What does home mean to you?
- Shocking solutions to public problems.
- Tell us about a failure.
- Frameworks to make big decisions.
- What is your health regime?
- How do you use lists?
- What do you believe that your heroes do
Derek Sivers • walk and talk | Derek Sivers
The world is moving too fast. We want everything done in the blink of an eye. We can't wait, we can't stay still. It's always a race between us and the time, and time usually wins which frustrates us. But what, if for a moment we stop, we grasp out breath and just live.
nametwitter.comCriticizing is fast and easy. Creating is slow and difficult.
The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce.
Anyone can tear down someone else's work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.
Adam Granttwitter.com