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What is worthwhile?
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learning occurs when you get lots of feedback tied closely in time to decisions and actions.
Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
There is some value to serendipity, but we are overconsuming novelty and under consuming purpose
Balaji S. Srinivasan • Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519
gradually discovered that ninety-nine percent of the things I worried about never happened.
Dale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living
"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things... See more
pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence
Everything is a process. We’re always changing, growing, and developing.
Lauren & William, Co-Founders, WOYOTE
He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
In this new book, Han describes the deleterious effects of that degeneration on storytelling. Storytelling used to bind us communally over the campfire; it connected us to our pasts and helped us imagine hopeful futures. The digital screen has replaced that fire, making us individuals performing factitious versions of ourselves to unseen peers,... See more
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stuartjeffries • The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative
It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.
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The Miracle of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, and Mobi Ho