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Irrational Dedication
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Everything around you—every convenience you enjoy, every space you inhabit, every service you use—was one person’s refusal to accept the world as it was.
The world progresses from a collection of irrational dedication.
The world progresses from a collection of irrational dedication.
Irrational Dedication
That hotel didn’t have to exist. Every single thing we see, someone had to will it into existence against the entropy of the universe and the indifference of everyone else. That’s what the entire built world is.
Irrational Dedication
“A new Jaguar shouldn’t land and everybody goes, yeah that’s nice,” he said. “We are fine with polarising. What we shouldn’t do is try and be loved by everybody... you’ll end up with vanilla – six, seven out of ten.”
Just a moment...
Stop the vanilla-izing
One of the worst things you can do to yourself is assume you can’t do something.
Assume you can do a pull-up. Assume you can bake a cake. Assume you can found a company.
Saturn Ion commercial
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If you’re giving back, you took too much!
-Ricardo Semler
… that is why I make—to see the life that grows around the dead stone I stack. For what is a building without its audience? What is a city without its people?
-Glirastes
from Pierce Brown’s Dark Age pg. 542