poetry in motion
it’s all about action
poetry in motion
You just need to be smart enough to understand that your success is more about your courage than your intelligence.
All of the people I know who are very talented and could be hugely successful have an obvious cringe activity standing between them and their reward and they just aren’t yet willing to walk into the tsunami of cringe
What holds many people back from taking initiative is not laziness. It's fear.
Inaction breeds rumination and feeds anxiety. Action builds momentum and fuels confidence.
Some ideas won't work. Some people will say no. But in the long run, it's better to fail than to fail to try.
From Catherine Cox’s Genetic Studies of Genius
a pattern I’ve noticed with people who try to “optimize” their lives:
they (and really I mean “we”) want to do things in an extraordinary way, and figure out the best path to approach & achieve their goals
but this desire to optimize usually doesn’t come from love, it comes from fear: fear of what will happen if they do things the “wrong” way or... See more