Reminders for myself
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of
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Yes! Love this.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- PERICLES
I know that the people who will make you feel warm and fuzzy when you’re sad, and the people who will give you brutally honest feedback, are usually different people. Ideally you want to have relationships with both kinds, and reward them for their strengths, rather than getting mad at them for failing to do what they’re bad at.
A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.
Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
Evolve or remain
50 things I know
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I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.
