Softness
- I recently took up drumming. Again.
One of the first things you realize, other than you suck, is that you’re gripping the sticks too hard.
A tight grip denies certain degrees of freedom, limits subtlety, and ups the fatigue factor. Plus you give up the gift of bounce the drum heads happily offer. It’s like you’re constantly paying interest vs. borrow... See morephoebe added 4mo ago
Jason Fried on company culture:
"You have to find the nature of things. That's the thing I've found to be the most useful tool in anything: trying to understand the true nature of an experience, place, or thing and rolling with the nature.
Any time you go against the true nature of something, you're just battling unnecessarily.
So yeah, figure it ou
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“gentle and powerful” = both an oxymoron and also a highly desirable combination.
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- Gentleness has become such a rare thing that when you’re in the presence of someone gentle it feels “undeserved”. Gentleness is the temperature of the human soul. Harshness or detachment are easy to do, which is why many don’t bother cultivating the strength needed for softness.
andrea added 1y ago
going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.121 cards · by Keely Adler and
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phoebe added 1y ago
I know most people try hard
to do good and find out too late
they should have tried softer.
from You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
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