Mindfulness & Wisdom
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself. Hiding your core feelings takes an enormous amount of energy, it saps your motivation to pursue worthwhile goals, and it leaves you feeling bored and shut down.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
I am a lot more powerful than I thought I was. Will power, emotional depth, emotional capacity and range. I am serenity as the deepest and truest essence de of my being.
WALTER ISAACSON
... See moreRemembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you
Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to come. You choose.
When talent doesn’t hustle, hustle beats talent. But when talent hustles, watch out.
When you work only for money, without any love for what you do in and of itself, your work will... See more
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
Topicality is wicked, deeply so. “Fresh” information is a tool of the selfish classes (and be sure there’s a diversity of type) to keep the individual anesthetized, to keep one suspended in a vat of phony immediacy and specious solidarity — the addiction to being informed.
Little in this world is relevantly fresh; and certainly there is nothing... See more
Little in this world is relevantly fresh; and certainly there is nothing... See more
“But there is a counter measure to this selfishly motivated, transcendental topicality: PATIENCE. Composure, restraint, and a commitment to one’s own long term well being, is like a lead shield to their hyperbolic information system; a thorough interrupter to their insistent momentum.”
Cargo brilliance
David Foster Wallace: "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred"
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.