shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
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shifting perspectives
If you keep working on your strengths, you become unique.
If you keep working on your weaknesses, you become average.
Work with your strengths, delegate your weaknesses.
-Kunal
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
Stress happens when something you care about is at stake. It's not a sign to run away - it's a sign to step forward.
Kelly McGonigal • The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and H…
The information in your news feeds is curated for interest or surprise. As such, the news is not a record of the ordinary but the extraordinary—a reflection not of reality but of precisely that which is uncharacteristic of reality.
-Gurwinder
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few.
And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred.
An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of companies.
And it doesn’t matter how many students are in the class, the teacher i
... See moreSeth Godin • The natural size
You are the machine that fuels everything else in your life.
Paying attention to the mindset that drives that machine, is simply one of the most important things you can do.
Every move, every decision, every action will rest on that. Be sure it is as optimal as it can be.
It seems odd to look at achievement through this lens, not as the thing the newspapers tell us it is, but – very often – as a species of mental illness. Those who put up the skyscrapers, write the bestselling books, perform on stage, or make partner may, in fact, be the unwell ones. Whereas the characters who – without agony – can bear an ordinary ... See more
The School of Life • Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional
Janice Min embraces more with less
"It's not about how big you can get, but the discipline of how small you can stay."
"It's not about how big you can get, but the discipline of how small you can stay."