Optimal grip
Identity, Art, Authenticity, & Courage [Gabe, AKA Vivid Void, Ep. 52]
youtube.comOscar Wilde: "It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
Visakan Veerasamyx.comThe “right” in “right view” makes it sound—to me, at least—as if it involves a kind of seeing that’s special, with eyes that are somehow imbued with wisdom or colored by boundless compassion. But that’s a fantasy of something in the distance, out there. Right view is part of a path, and the path is always beneath our feet, right here. There’s... See more
Koun Franz • The Eightfold Path: Right View
This ability is not something you can turn on and off. You are always internalizing the culture around you. Even when you wish you didn’t. So you better surround yourself with something you want inside—curate a culture.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
Care personally + challenge directly = radical candor.
Venkatesh Rao • Venkatesh Rao on Substack
Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
Farnam Streetfs.blog
I often feel like I’m accumulating insight when I’m doing, but it doesn’t translate into changes in my action and perception unless I take a pause from doing. When acting on the world, I am like a dam filling with potential energy, but it is only in silence and stillness the dam can open up, and the insights I have accumulated can transform into... See more
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection
action AND contemplation!
[see: Fr. Richard Rohr]
