Thought provoking

The longer you live abroad, the more you realize you’ll always be a bit of an outsider, no matter where you are.

When you have something to say, to express, any submission becomes unbearable in the long run. One must have the courage of one’s vocation and the courage to make a living from one’s vocation. The “second career” is an illusion! I was often broke too, and I always resisted any temptation to live any other way than from my painting... In the beginni... See more

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

Said this to a friend but it applies to many:

I think you have a good guess what you should be doing, and there is no need to overthink it. Just decided that for the next 3 months you will execute on your inkling. After that, you can evaluate if you want to try something different. Course correcting too often than eats your bandwidth.

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.1

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.2

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seekin... See more

You get lucky this time because of something you already did, something you didn’t do as preparation, but as exploration. Luck is not the result of trying to get lucky; it is the result of being busy, productive, energetic. The more you do, the more opportunities you will find, be able to recognise, or be well suited to.

If there’s something you want to do, do it. By doing it, you increase your “surface area of luck”, as Paul Graham says. The idea I most loved discovering was James Austin’s four types of luck, which is all about increasing the surface area of your luck.

Only a fool or an egomaniac would deny that chance shapes the vast majority of life. The time, place, culture, family, body, brain, and biochemistry we are born into, the people who cross our path, the accidents that befall us — these dwarf in consequence the sum total of our choices. Still, our choices are the points of light that flicker against ... See more

‘I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved, all the cities I have visited.’