Living ethically
How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world
Living ethically
How do you write from the place in your gut where love dwells? The Sufi poet Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Gabe Berman • The Complete Bullshit-Free and Totally Tested Writing Guide How to Make Publishers, Agents, Editors & Readers Fall in Love With Your Work
If we’re not careful, we can get stuck in the Disinterest Zone for years, maybe decades, simply because it’s what pays the bills.
Michael Hyatt • Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
This idea of multiplicity—the ability to accept multiple realities at once—is critical to healthy relationships
Dr. Becky Kennedy • Good Inside
To face the storm you must learn to respond to it rather than react to it.
Patti Henry • The Emotionally Unavailable Man
“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
– allyi
Charlie Becker wrote about “psychological richness” and I wonder if that ties into my new thinking on leisure (it feels dirty to turn leisure into a framework, but here it is:). Nature, friendship, art, culture, psyche. “Richness” feels like a relevant word because these 5 points are a kind of satisfaction that can’t be bought (your aesthetic
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-Neri Oxman on what she looks for when hiring
When you’re practicing Illuminationism, you’re offering a gaze that says, “I want to get to know you and be known by you.” It’s a gaze that positively answers the question everybody is unconsciously asking themselves when they meet you: “Am I a person to you? Do you care about me? Am I a priority for you?” The answers to those questions are
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