Thought provoking
20 END OF YEAR REFLECTION QUESTIONS
Exit 2024 With Closure and Control
Heather Maietta
How did I live up to my definition of success?
What was my greatest accomplishment this year?
What was one skill I improved upon in 2024?
What about my daily routine worked for me?
What was one thing I spent money on that was invaluable to my career?
What was the biggest
Anam Cara and the Essence of True Friendship: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Beautiful Ancient Celtic Notion of Soul-Friend
Anam Cara and the Essence of True Friendship: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Beautiful Ancient Celtic Notion of Soul-Friend
Decades into his long life, the poet Robert Graves defined love as “a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that... makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other.”
Maria Popova • What Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
"Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final." - Rainer Maria Rilke
How to Get Lucky, The 4 Quarters Technique, & More
1 Question For You
The common narrative is that kids learn faster than adults, but if you watch any toddler they spend a large portion of the day attempting things that are on the edge of their ability.
How much time have you spent on the edge of your ability today?
The common narrative is that kids learn faster than adults, but if you watch any toddler they spend a large portion of the day attempting things that are on the edge of their ability.
How much time have you spent on the edge of your ability today?
3-2-1: How to learn faster, what you put into the world, and the value of numerous attempts
“This Is Good”
In front of large audience of people “considering some kind of life or career in the world of ideas,” as he put it, the economist Tyler Cowen asked Camille Paglia to offer a piece of advice based on her many years of soldiering through adversity, rejection, and failure before eventually emerging in her mid-40s as a successful and
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Getting Lucky
4 Dec 2024 — 5 min read
Photo by Jakob Cotton / Unsplash
... See moreLuck isn’t a constant, it increases with surface area: be in the right places, have lots of conversations, put yourself out there, ask for what you want and be optimistic and positive.
From the Inner Compass deck guidebook by Neel van Lierop, under ‘Open Doors’: “Do not try and open doors with sheer willpower, go for the ones that are already ajar. You do not need to struggle to get what belongs to you. When you recognize situations that enter your life effortlessly, without any force or resistance, you can trust that they guide
... See moreYou wrote that the brain evolved to seek out the “edge of informational chaos” — a place where our predictive models begin to break down, and in those uncertain zones, we actually have much to learn.