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Some lessons I have taken away so far:
8 hours of sleep
always be in the present, focus because trying to catch up later is going to be even more difficult and tiresome
you can’t take care of others unless you take care of yourself
rituals are VERY understated — people may not understand and it could possibly come off as selfish but you need that r
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Everything happens in cycles: flow —> resistance —> stuckness —> renewal Embrace the cyclical nature of everything
30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
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By drawing lines in the sand around your values, your expectations, your emotional well-being, and your belief systems, you’re not just protecting yourself—you’re defining yourself. You’re signalling both who you are and who you want your tribe to be.
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
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Listening is a neglected social skill. But I know that an even more neglected social skill is candor.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
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Being rich is nice, but what you really want to optimize for is (1) an income that exceeds your spending by a healthy margin and (2) a lifestyle that is free from rushing
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When you’re genuinely curious about the world, when you let that curiosity guide your reading, your thinking, and your creating, you become a magnet for ideas, conversations, and opportunities. When you’re interested, you’re never boring. And when you’re interesting, the world can’t help but pay attention.
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
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I believe publishing my thinking is the best way to discover my true opinion. Even if it’s just in a group text. Writing about anything usually shows me that I didn't know it quite as well as I thought.
Andrew Ettinger • 30 more things I believe
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We often keep our connections close to our chests, guarding them like precious resources, believing that by holding onto them, we’re preserving their value. But here’s the irony: by doing that, we’re actually diminishing their value. Networks don’t thrive in isolation; they come alive when the number of connections—the nodes within them—increases.
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
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