To Ponder
Ideas and thoughts worth pausing for. Deep concepts or abstracts worth digesting.
To Ponder
I want to live in a world where you can have an impact and be happy. Maybe that’s naive, but I’m sticking to it.
All of this occurs naturally to Kelly, and he doesn’t have complicated feelings about it. I’m hoping to get there myself by channeling him more. “The more you pursue interests,” he told me on the good day we spent together, “the more you... See more
All of this occurs naturally to Kelly, and he doesn’t have complicated feelings about it. I’m hoping to get there myself by channeling him more. “The more you pursue interests,” he told me on the good day we spent together, “the more you... See more
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A few years ago, I forced myself to try and write down a professional goal. After several hours of forced meditation on the topic, all I could muster was “have a good day, most days.” And don’t get me wrong, by “good day” I don’t mean sitting by a pool drinking an Aperol Spritz. I feel alive when I launch something exciting, close a big deal, or... See more
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To have a good day, most days
I learned that Kelly doesn’t think in outputs. For him, doing is part of learning. “I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”
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“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees.
And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever.
And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so
... See moreIf you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar
"Passion" comes from the Latin
"passio" which means
"suffering" and "endurance."
So people think that following your passion means doing something you love, when it really means finding something that you are willing to suffer for.
"passio" which means
"suffering" and "endurance."
So people think that following your passion means doing something you love, when it really means finding something that you are willing to suffer for.
you can change an entire timeline just by sending a risky text or talking to a stranger. you need to be playing with the fabric of reality
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