Thought provoking
Your environment shapes you more than willpower.
Lorwen C Nagle, PhD • Tweet
“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on.
We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”
- Maxwell Maltz from... See more
We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”
- Maxwell Maltz from... See more
Dan • 4 Minute Fridays: The Mental Secret To Living 50% Longer
radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant
Cate Hall • How to Be More Agentic
the acceleration of things has made us miserable because our choices are no longer sufficiently limited that we feel we can accomplish everything we want. We’ve created an acceleration and an explosion of choice, which will permanently leave us feeling fundamentally unsatisfied or under-optimized
There are things in life where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest.
when it comes to making something wonderful, the magic is in the mundane
