Thought provoking
“Notice,” Michael Lewis suggests, “the effect the stories people tell about themselves have on their lives. If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves.” Some people are always the victim in the stories they... See more
SIX at 6: A Reign of Error, Good And Bad Air, Second Opinions, Running Out Of Luck, Phoebe Buffay, and The Effect Of Your Narrative
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it . . . if you think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing
... See moreWarren Berger • A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Something Charlie Chaplin said: "Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the look-out for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.
I would say, pick a subject that will stimulate you, elaborate it and
... See moreSam Harriss • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Charlie Becker wrote about “psychological richness” and I wonder if that ties into my new thinking on leisure (it feels dirty to turn leisure into a framework, but here it is:). Nature, friendship, art, culture, psyche. “Richness” feels like a relevant word because these 5 points are a kind of satisfaction that can’t be bought (your aesthetic
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