things you should remember
"Questions are answered as you move , not before you move. Moving forward with an answer that is partially correct will usually fill in the gaps faster than waiting until you come up with a plan that is perfectly correct."
3-2-1: The price of compromise, the magic of art, and how to improve in the modern world
You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns
3-2-1: The price of compromise, the magic of art, and how to improve in the modern world
Poet, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner Paul Valéry encourages us not to imitate the acts of great people, but to carry their spirit forward:
"All great undertakings do not consist of doing again what others have done before, but in recapturing the spirit that went into what they did—and would have done differently in a different age."
"All great undertakings do not consist of doing again what others have done before, but in recapturing the spirit that went into what they did—and would have done differently in a different age."
3-2-1: How to find clarity, the value of being humbled, and the path to building resilience
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke reminds us that the best things in life will also humble us:
"This is how we grow: by being defeated by greater and greater things."
Source: The Book of Images (1902)
"This is how we grow: by being defeated by greater and greater things."
Source: The Book of Images (1902)
3-2-1: How to find clarity, the value of being humbled, and the path to building resilience
As Nix writes, searching for your life’s work is a multi-turn endeavour. Rightness reveals itself gently over time, and brings you closer to finding a life that fits
maja • what i learned on a creative sabbatical
"You can be authentic and hardworking and still struggle to find your footing if you’re in the wrong environment.
Think about your placement as much as your performance. Plant yourself where you can... See more
- A fun person trapped in the wrong city.
- A loving partner in a relationship that won’t reciprocate.
- A great entrepreneur stuck in the wrong business.
Think about your placement as much as your performance. Plant yourself where you can... See more
3-2-1: On winning and losing, making the most of accidents, and when waiting doesn't work
have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
Adam Mastroianni • 28 slightly rude notes on writing
This is permission to find comfort in knowing that we cannot, and will not, know or change everything .
Matt Klein • The Art of (Attention) War
very much ‘meditation for mortals’ - accept the finitude and play in the ruins
Francis Bacon warned that when we have no clear “prenotion or perception of what we are seeking, we seek and toil and wander aimlessly, as if in infinite space. Whereas, if we have a particular prenotion, infinity is at once interrupted.” When our attention narrows, we can move forward with purpose.