The Evergreens

Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.

Keep in touch, and always send a thank you note

Finding your way in life is like unlocking the combination of a safe. You have to go forwards and backwards. Life is not a direct march from A to B. The twists and turns are progress, not regression. What feels like a setback in the moment is later revealed to have been part of the path all along. Each move was necessary to get to your end goal.

We believe emotion is energy in motion. So to discharge, we move, we breathe, we make sound and we dance, so we are never too scared to feel our rawest emotions and we don’t store them in our bodies.

The best way to be highly influential is to be human to everyone you meet.

Near the end of December, I open my email or pick up a pen, and I begin composing thank-you notes. The messages are usually just a few sentences long: I recap my interactions with the recipient that year, put my finger on what I appreciated, and say I’m grateful. But when I consider whom to thank, I realize the list could go on and on. I try to... See more

you almost certainly can't consistently do the kind of work that demands serious mental focus for more than about three or four hours a day.

“The fast way is the slow way because the slow way is the only way” – Steven Bartlett