Philosofitting

Start to dream of somewhere
To relax the restless flight

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Tony Robbins • MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of games is that you can get sucked into this experience of just craving and wanting to be in a clear, crisp and gentle universe where you know exactly what to do and exactly how well it’s measured.

New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life

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“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”

―Miles Davis

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“The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.” – John Taylor Gatto

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“A tiny acorn grows into a magnificent oak tree, and it never goes: ‘I have to improve myself.’”

Discover, not improve

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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi

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Dr. Jim Loehr

Do, or do not. There is no failure, only feedback. –Yoda Robert Allen

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If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook

Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun or urgent or interesting part of the work.

There are countless productive shortcuts along the way. But not finishing the project isn’t one of them.

If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook

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What is the pain you want to sustain?

–Mark Manson

i.e., Do you want the reward but not the struggle? Want the results but not the process of getting them? What values are worth the effort?

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J. Greenleaf Whittier:

For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been!