life ethos
by alexi gunner · updated 8d ago
life ethos
- The right way is the hard way
from Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager by Jerry Seinfeld
alexi gunner added 8d ago
- If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right
from Tweet by Jason Snyder
alexi gunner added 8d ago
- "Envy is inversely correlated with self-examination. The less you know yourself, the more you look to others to get an idea of your worth. But the more you delve into who you are, the less you seek from others, and the dissolution of envy begins."
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alexi gunner added 21d ago
- Yeah, that's it. And that's how I work. I've always worked like that. The three Ps are a good mix, one for pay, one for pleasure, and one for prestige.
Like you know you've earned money so that you can go and do stuff for free, essentially. It all connects.alexi gunner added 1mo ago
The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.
-Bonnie Friedman
alexi gunner added 1mo ago
The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness
— Alain de Botton in ‘On Confidence’
alexi gunner added 1mo ago
Gary Oldman said “There’s a saying, isn’t there, that we have one foot in the past, one foot in the future, and we piss on today. We are not in the moment.”
alexi gunner added 1mo ago
- the thing is, as an adult, you get to make your own cool. you get to choose your own friends, live your own life. and let me tell you, in my life, where i make the rules, i am the coolest cat around.
being passionate about your hobbies is cool. asking good questions is cool. reading books is cool. taking notes is cool.
thinking of projects and then d... See morefrom “cool” - Tasshin
alexi gunner added 2mo ago