Reminders for myself
Everyone, including myself, must be sacrificed to the creative act.
when life gets “hard”. remember that there’s a khabib out there for your conor mcgreggor
Recently, one of my favorite questions to bug people with has been “What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?” If you don’t know the answer to that one, maybe you are doing something wrong or not doing enough. Or maybe you are (optimally?) not very ambitious?
Tyler Cowen • How I practice at what I do
Reading about Churchill reassured him that “even these gods have moments of insecurity.”
The Difference between God and Larry Ellison. God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison.
“If you are uncomfortable—in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused —you don’t have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” – Glennon Doyle
Tolstoy observed that love can’t exist off in the future. Love is only real if it’s happening right now. If you think about it, that’s true for basically everything we think, feel, or do.
Stillness is the key - Ryan Holiday
If you're in your 20s, you should be too busy to date. Fall in love with people who fall in to your life. The more you live authentically- the better you'll attract. Dating apps give the exact opposite signal- that you are literally spending extra time, beyond dating, just to date.