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Words matter. They give direction and meaning to things.
Simon Sinek • The Infinite Game
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more.
The converse is true, too. If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you’re sitting around... See more
The converse is true, too. If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you’re sitting around... See more
James Somers • Speed Matters: Why Working Quickly Is More Important Than It Seems
Why not make a conscious decision to learn something new every day? No matter how small the daily learning, it is significant when aggregated over a lifetime. Resolving early in life to have a continuous learning mindset is not only more interesting than the passive alternative, it is also remarkably powerful. Choosing lifelong learning is one of
... See moreLaurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people. —Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
Basharat Peer • Curfewed Night
For most consequential endeavors, long-term progress is less about heroic effort and more about smart pacing; less about intensity on any given day and more about discipline over the course of months, and in some cases even years.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
“Sense of place – the way we perceive places such as streets, communities, cities or ecoregions – influences our well-being, how we describe and interact with a place, what we value in a place, our respect for ecosystems and other species, how we perceive the affordances of a place, our desire to build more sustainable and just communities, and how... See more
Dense Discovery • Dense Discovery / Issue 183
The root of the word courage is cor—the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage had a very different definition than it does today. Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Over time, this definition has changed, and, today, courage is more synonymous with being heroic. Heroics is
... See moreBrené Brown • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Silence has much to say.