On Doing
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert, 1876
Dylan O'Sullivanx.comI ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing…
— Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road"
David Sherryx.com
Life can be so much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it.
The Rings of Power
“There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.”
Committed people do what interested people won’t.”
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.”
Packy McCormick • Vertical Integrators
A final note on distinguishing experts from imitators: Many of us learn about a subject not by reading original research or listening to the expert, but by reading something intended to be highly transmissible. Think of the difference between reading an academic article and reading a newspaper article. While popularizers know more than the layman,... See more
Farnam Street • Experts vs. Imitators
Mary Oliver on avoiding regrets:
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”