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“Now I have to remember you for longer than I’ve known you.” -C. C. Aurel
Teachers are only there to help you change your mind, to model possibility, good books exist to guide you, but... See more
Anyone Who Has Ever Mastered a Skill is Self-Taught
mastery , self-learning , skills , self-help
“There’s a lot of intimacy in never speaking again.”
thinking of myself about this a lot these days
John Maxwell: “The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.” But this works only if you actually complete each loop, so keep your commitment realistic . . . The value of a pact lies not in its length but in the insignt and growth it brings.”
—Le Cunff on small commitments she
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments • Ch. 3
“Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
bring your loved ones with you when you walk into a room
Maya Angelou
“Trosky never tried to keep the top spot any one year but rather to place in the top 10 percent over ten years, aiming for long-term excellence rather than peak performance . . . Trosky calls this way of investing strategic mediocrity. His thesis is that it is possible to be excellent over the long term by not investing in the highest-performing
... See moreLe Cunff, Anne Laure. Tiny Experiments. Ch. 6
Don't Follow Your Dreams, Follow Your Tools
youtube.comDon’t follow your dreams, Follow your tools . . . a single dream doesn’t work because things that are part of your toolkit (your passions, your relationships, your curiosities) pass by and you just let them go and do nothing about them.