Personal Development
Musings on living a better life + becoming a better human. Plus tools, projects and communities that help you do that.
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Personal Development
Adam Gopnik: In my lexicon – which may be idiosyncratic but I think is also illuminating – “achievement”represents all the outer-directed, institutionally compelled things we do to advance our lives or those of our children. Getting grades, passing classes, pushing forward into select colleges. All of that. “Accomplishment” on the other hand, means... See more
Accomplishment vs. Achievement
accomplishment = inner-directed
achievement = outer-directed
What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
Chris Dixoncdixon.org🧵 How to build a great life (17 things I’ve learned)
I’ve run hard my whole life—always charging forward, rarely looking back. But 50 hits you different. It’s caused me to pause & reflect. ⬇️
Kevin Dahlstromtwitter.com
If you haven’t stepped out of your comfort zone in a while, it might be time to try.
Experiencing the unfamiliar allows us to practice being agile, because we’re not always able to default to our usual cognitive response patterns in new contexts.