On Doing
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.”
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The laziest engineers I went to school with and later worked with were always so damn good https://t.co/QHU9TSKTV6
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
“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.”
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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
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert, 1876
