read this when the mind is loud
"The secret of creative work is to make a lot and publish a little.
Don't underestimate the power of giving yourself permission to create junk. Most of what you create will be mediocre or bad.
But that's okay. You only have to show people the good stuff. Make 100 things, discard 90, and share the 10 best. Create, create, create. Edit, edit, edit."
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the Cost of Success, the Secret of Creative Work, and the Power of Walking
Your feelings are wise. Bad feelings mean you need to take action. Good feelings mean you took the right action. Following your feelings is the most natural and rewarding thing to do.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Following your intuition - what does it mean to live a goof life?
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
When friendship is settled, you must trust; before friendship is formed, you must pass judgment.
en.wikisource.org • Moral Letters to Lucilius/Letter 3 - Wikisource, the Free Online Library
Make a story for the things you want to remember. Never make a story for the things you want to forget. Let those disappear with time. Your memories are a mix of fact and fiction. Your story about an experience overwrites your memory of the actual experience. So use this in your favor. Re-write your past. Embellish adventures. Disempower trauma.
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Overcome worry, anxiety and trauma. Thought managment. I like this way of thinking
Judge a goal by how well it changes your actions in the present moment.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
A different way to see goals. In the present moment. In real time
This is how I feel about culture. We’re so surrounded by it that it’s impossible to see. Many things we think are true are really just our local culture. We can’t see it until we get outside of it.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
We're unable to see culture until we are outside of it.
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When a musician covers someone else’s song, they reveal their own warped perspective, since we know what the original sounds like. Because of this, performing a cover song is actually a great way to defne who you are as an artist. When a musician writes a new song that imitates someone else’s song, almost nobody notices the similarity. People don’t
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