the universe is made of stories
the story you tell about a product, and the culture you build around that story, matters far more than the product itself
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The late eighteenth-century Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches us, “If you want to return to God you must make yourself into a new creation. You can do this with a sigh.”9
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The Universe has a history only because we are here to tell it.
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When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, the great Rabbi Israel Shem Tov, saw misfortune threatening the Jews, it was his custom to go into a certain part of the forest to meditate. There he would light a fire, say a special prayer, and the miracle would be accomplished and the misfortune averted.
Later, when his disciple, the celebrated Maggid of
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it’s impossible to become the gorgeous
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“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
―ursula le guin
“Everyone dreams big until you see the price tag.”
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish