things you should remember
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.
Matt Klein • The Art of (Attention) War
reality can’t be fully understood without curiously wandering beyond a feed and paying attention to the physical world, to people, places and knowledge uncaptured by the internet.
Matt Klein • The Art of (Attention) War
Honesty is the best policy, but honesty that’s motivated by shame, anger, fear or hurt is not “honesty”. It’s shame, anger, fear or hurt disguised as honesty.
— Dare to Lead, Brene Brown
most people's definition of "trying" is contingent on not taking on any reputational risk, not investing more than two weeks of time, not investing more than 2 months of their salary, and giving up after the second obstacle
the world is free for those who want it
astridwilde1x.com
You should attempt things that are difficult enough to guarantee some early embarrassment, but important enough that long-term regret is unlikely.
Trying something difficult will usually make you look foolish or inexperienced. That’s fine. That's the cost of learning.
Trying something difficult will usually make you look foolish or inexperienced. That’s fine. That's the cost of learning.