lifestyle
What is worthwhile?
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Think of life as an opportunity to create and give.
"The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous
... See more“The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
―
Michel de Montaigne,
The Complete Essays
―
Michel de Montaigne,
The Complete Essays
A quote from The Complete Essays
Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comIn 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
“Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.”