life ethos
by alexi gunner · updated 1d ago
life ethos
by alexi gunner · updated 1d 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 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo ago
The “5 salaries” idea: jobs pay you financially, educationally, psychologically, socially, and in freedom.
alexi gunner added 5mo ago
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