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Russell T. Davies’s observation that good dialogue is ‘two monologues clashing. It’s true in life, never mind drama. Everyone is always, always thinking about themselves.’
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
It was something that Parsifal figured out when he was halfway through his career as a magician: People don’t pay attention. They don’t know how. They can smell guilt or fear from the other side of the Dodgers’ stadium, but if you simply go about your business with authority no one can tell.
Ann Patchett • The Magician’s Assistant: The Sunday Times best selling author of The Dutch House and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction
As you can tell from a number of the top twenty-five TED Talkers (who regularly ‘um’ and ‘er’), it’s not that big an issue, but it’s good to eliminate these ‘fillers’: it helps you control the pace of your speech if you’re focused on not saying ‘um’ and ‘er’. Slowing down can help your sense and fluidity: just pause and breathe instead of saying
... See moreViv Groskop • How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking
Historians of technology often quote Kranzberg’s First Law (formulated by Melvin Kranzberg in a seminal essay in 1986): ‘Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.’
Bee Wilson • Consider the Fork
...my sister, Alison, who sees the box containing the hippo, etc., in my living room and says, "What the hell, Lincoln, you're turning out to be exactly like Mom." And although we adore our mother, Alison does not intend this observation as a compliment. What she means is that I'm stockpiling random meaningless objects, and she is right, but she is
... See moreJennifer Egan • The Candy House: A Novel
He has a gift for reconsideration. Reconsideration is hard; it takes courage. We have to deny ourselves the comfort of always being the same person, one who arrived at an answer some time ago and has never had any reason to doubt it.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Type 2: Luck from Motion
You’re creating motion and collisions through hustle and energy that you are inserting into an ecosystem.
You increase your luck surface area through simple movement.
The increase in collisions opens you up to more lucky events.
Sahil Bloomtwitter.comIn fact, all your life you’ve been radiating electromagnetic waves, but since you never radiate the part of the spectrum that can be seen, we can tell nothing about you just by looking.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
READ YOUR MORNING PAGES! This process is best undertaken with two colored markers, one to highlight insights and another to highlight actions needed. Do not judge your pages or yourself. This is very important. Yes, they will be boring. Yes, they may be painful. Consider them a map. Take them as information, not an indictment.
Take Stock: Whom have
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