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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spen... See more
Maria Popova • How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
In the long run, it’s actually easier to be accountable.
Mark Samuel • Making Yourself Indispensable
This is why commitment comes after the adventure, because you have to see the world is bigger than you—that it can break you—in order for you to focus on doing some good in it.
Jeff Goins • Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable Life
Sari Azout • Moodboard
But having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another.
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is o... See more
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is o... See more
Bill Watterson • SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
I realized that providing expertise is antithetical to cultivating agency, and I began seeking new ways to engage my client organizations. For example, I stopped offering organizational models and started emphasizing the use of living systems frameworks, which provide the structure for thinking but require participants to supply the content and do
... See moreCarol Sanford • No More Gold Stars: Regenerating Capacity to Think for Ourselves
As generative AI gets better at producing content, it’s important to remember that creativity is about far more than the outcome. The striking and wondrous thing about creativity is its mysterious seeds of origin.
Scott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence
One very good way to tell that your centre of gravity is out of whack is when it feels like you spend a lot of time inside the minds of far-off strangers.