Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong.
-Ted Lasso
from Ted Lasso S1E1
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
from Ted Lasso S1
Happiness equals smiles minus frowns.
Vicky • [Outliers] Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple
from Steve Wozniak
Most people hoard their ideas. The best make them spread.
Vicky • [Outliers] Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple
Reliability is magnetic because humans are hardwired to avoid risk, so once you prove yourself trustworthy and reliable, you become the default choice for opportunities without ever asking for them.
Reliability is Magnetic
Once the vessel starts to crack open, the end becomes inevitable … But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it’s only in that time what we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs.
-Quentin Jacobsen
Do the cracks start forming as soon as were born?
from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 302
Things generally don’t happen like you imagined they would—but if you don’t imagine, things generally don’t happen.
from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 299
Everyone searches for opportunities while running from problems, missing that they're the same thing.
Problems aren't obstacles to opportunity, they ARE the opportunity.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #652
…we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way we are—we idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
-Connie Jacobsen
from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 198