shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
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shifting perspectives
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
Pessimists see problems. They worry about what could go wrong in the future. Optimists see possibilities. They focus on what could go right in the future. Proactive people turn problems into possibilities. They give us reasons to be optimistic about the future.
Adam Granttwitter.com"Proactive people turn problems into possibilities. They give us reasons to be optimistic about the future."
No amount of productivity will quench our inner fears about self-worth and helplessness.
Leo Babautatwitter.comthe world becomes a lot easier to love when you go through it with the belief that everyone is usually doing their best, and is probably frustrated with their own shortcomings even more than you might be frustrated with them.
when someone disappoints or angers you, remember:
Isabel️twitter.com“i should build up the technical skills so that I can use them creatively” is very precisely backward
River Dakinitwitter.comParadigm Shifts
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this is a really great article: many great scientists were intensely spiritual (Bowie, Einstein, Tesla) but the spiritual aspects of their inspiration were oppressed. makes me wonder if reason and religion are fundamentally connected, even though we see them as opposites.
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
the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it—perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and
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