Motivation
You don’t have to make sense.
Not all the time. Not to everyone. Not even to yourself.
We live in a world obsessed with clarity, coherence, and tidy narratives. But sometimes, the most honest thing you can do is sit in the mess. To let your contradictions breathe. To feel things that don’t add up.
Tuğba Avcisubstack.comDon’t out-AI the AI. Do what it can’t.
find something that’s under-appreciated, not being addressed, or being overlooked, and get really good at it...If you become the foremost expert at something, you make yourself indispensable.
Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: What You’re Made For, John Lennon’s Tea, The Mundanity of Excellence, A Seminal Event, The Common Denominator, and Bob Knight’s Advice - Billy Oppenheimer
As the French film director Robert Bresson once said, “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”21 If you don’t try something, it will assuredly never exist. Not your version, anyway. True, not all endeavors will be successful, but even our so-called failures can be valuable teachers.
Ryder Carroll • The Bullet Journal Method
This is why I feel like people who are less cerebral and less aware of all of the ways in which they are imperfect, they just blast past everyone else. Because they're just doing things. And they get better so much quicker. So I think that's a message I want to give to the world. You're good to go. Just start doing things.
