Thought provoking
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Devotion over discipline:
Prioritizing a deep heartfelt connection and inner motivation rather than relaying solely on forced effort or external rules
One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.
Gracie Vansubstack.comyears ago someone suggested using the word devotion instead of discipline and I swear it’s the only reason I am so committed to the things that I love ~ bc devotion is an act of love ~ while discipline feels like an act of force
viendasubstack.com“Life involves making a decision so the spirits can rush in”
- Sheila Heti
the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can
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I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?
Lincoln Michel • Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
I don’t need more things to look at from people I don’t know.