shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
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shifting perspectives
What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness. No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering.
Robert Greenetwitter.comOne of my favorite examples of TAM’s irrelevance is Etsy. Early on, our peers were thinking, “How big could arts and crafts possibly be? I go to farmers markets, and maybe two or three people are polishing wooden bowls or selling earrings they’ve made in their free time. How many of those folks are there, and how many will actually use something... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Danny Rimer
Danny Rimer’s most contrarian, high-conviction opinion
🪱🌱👩🏻🌾 YOUR ENTIRE LIFE IS A CREATIVE ECOSYSTEM, OF WHICH YOUR ART PRACTICE IS JUST ONE THREAD 👩🏻🌾🌱🪱
When I think about my creative practice, I like to imagine that I am planting seeds, growing and nurturing many things at once in the dirt. I like to shift my focus away from the products of creative work, and center... See more
instagram.comrationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
hinterlander • Tweet
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”
Dystopia: "Robots will do half of your jobs"
Utopia: "Robots will do half of your job"
Noah Smith 🐇twitter.comIt 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
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
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