Life Advice
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Life Advice
Cool 2 minute movie about real learning. Skaters involved.
My yoga teacher always starts class with this line:
"Congrats. The hardest part is over. You showed up."
I feel like that mindset applies to most other things.
It’s much easier to write a playbook than it is to do a hard thing.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Faith and skepticism
be suspicious of the teachings of any playbook or framework. your exact context is different from what the advice-giver or framework author have experience with.
I’m not great at advice—I share Oscar Wilde’s opinion about it, for the most part—but with that caveat I’d say this: don’t be afraid of seeking. Don’t be afraid of your own depth. Don’t dumb yourself down to be less threatening to others. Don’t let the shallow present monoculture shame you into vacuousness.
Ray Nayler • Ray Nayler: Don't Be Afraid of Your Own Depth
“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”