Sanctuary
Essential. Peaceful. Mindful.
Sanctuary
This is the great struggle of modern work: distillation. The untrained eye dismisses it as crude minimalism, but true virtuosos recognize its complexity. Crafting crystalline simplicity is grueling, mind-bending work—the rarified art of smelting ideas into dense, polished gemstones.
Tom White • Why Less Is More When Pitching Yourself
When stuck
What is my one top priority now?
How can I begin without waiting for anything?
What advice would I love to hear from an all-knowing sage?
What am I doing that’s actually a distraction?
Instead of avoiding mistakes, how can I make more to learn faster?
Who can help?
What is my one top priority now?
How can I begin without waiting for anything?
What advice would I love to hear from an all-knowing sage?
What am I doing that’s actually a distraction?
Instead of avoiding mistakes, how can I make more to learn faster?
Who can help?
To make peace with what’s out of your control
What happens if I ignore it and do nothing?
Should I learn a lesson from this, or just move on?
How can I blame no one, and see this as nobody’s fault?
How can I be OK no matter what happens?
What happens if I ignore it and do nothing?
Should I learn a lesson from this, or just move on?
How can I blame no one, and see this as nobody’s fault?
How can I be OK no matter what happens?
When changing direction
When I was at my happiest, what was I doing?
What have I strongly wanted for the longest time?
What’s the opposite of what I usually do?
Which of my old beliefs are not serving me?
Forget me. What would be most helpful for others?
When I was at my happiest, what was I doing?
What have I strongly wanted for the longest time?
What’s the opposite of what I usually do?
Which of my old beliefs are not serving me?
Forget me. What would be most helpful for others?
How a polarity works:
“When the energy crosses between the two poles, it is experienced in the system as ‘tension.’ With this tension, we often assume that we must choose one of the poles as a ‘solution’ to the tension. This is a false choice because the poles are inseparable. The tension is unsolvable in that one cannot choose either pole as a sust... See more
“When the energy crosses between the two poles, it is experienced in the system as ‘tension.’ With this tension, we often assume that we must choose one of the poles as a ‘solution’ to the tension. This is a false choice because the poles are inseparable. The tension is unsolvable in that one cannot choose either pole as a sust... See more
Every time we look at a blank page, a blank canvas, an empty stage, we are experiencing as close as we ever will the presence of the Vector Equilibrium as the zero starting point for all experiential reality.
Marshall Lefferts, Foster Gamble, • Cosmometry
Lingering in minds requires a new sort of Madison Avenue alchemy—compressing high-voltage ideas into phrases so charged that they sear into neural pathways.
Tom White • Why Less Is More When Pitching Yourself
4. Do nothing
Doing nothing is how to live.
“Stop all the thinking and doing. Be still and silent. No actions and no reactions. No judgments and no conclusions. No craving and no fixing.”
“Change your need to change things. In your most peaceful moments, your mind is quiet. You’re not thinking you should be doing anything else. When everything feels p... See more
Doing nothing is how to live.
“Stop all the thinking and doing. Be still and silent. No actions and no reactions. No judgments and no conclusions. No craving and no fixing.”
“Change your need to change things. In your most peaceful moments, your mind is quiet. You’re not thinking you should be doing anything else. When everything feels p... See more
When something goes wrong
What’s great about this?
How can I use this to my advantage?
Does this change the goal, or the path, or nothing?
How can I reduce the downsides?
What’s great about this?
How can I use this to my advantage?
Does this change the goal, or the path, or nothing?
How can I reduce the downsides?