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Lael Johnson

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Attention isn’t free. It’s the most valuable thing you spend.

Shane • Obsess Over the Basics

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A habit must be established before it can be improved. Master the art of showing up

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -Frederick Douglass

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What's beautiful depends on who we are, what we've encountered, where we live, and when. Likewise, the art that opens us to the chaotic stream of reality-the art we find beautiful-changes with time and with us, as we evolve. Beauty, I'd come to think, doesn't have to have a physical form, and it certainly doesn't have to be something we agree on. B

Bianca Bosker • Get the Picture

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All children live in a world rich with surprises. Each new thing, no matter how ordinary, inspires a sense of wonder and delight. But novelty naturally declines with age, and our surroundings begin to dull with familiarity.

Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness

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No one can compete with you on being you.

Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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space of places.”

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

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Novelist and comic book writer Neil Gaiman on the source of improvement:

"You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."

Source: Neil Gaiman's Advice to Aspiring Writers

3-2-1: How to stick to a new habit, how to handle criticism, and 4 types of wealth

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Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.

Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.

-Jensen Huang

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