motivation

I mean, you’re (Offscreen) probably not making a ton of money publishing an indie magazine, right? So why do you do it? Because you feel it in your bones. This must exist.

In an ideal world, one’s own personal intuition or radar is the same thing as the force that motivates them.

Most people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true for physical energy, but mental energy is different: spending mental energy on things that you consider productive or important gives you more mental energy for other things: a positive feedback loop.

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i wish more people knew psychological impact of using the word “but” - it can negate all that came before it in the listener’s ears. often acting as an unintentional dismissal

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”