Truth
I don’t chase, I attract.
★ luce ☆ • ✿ 30 little life mantras ✿
Don’t trust how you feel first thing in the morning, or past 9pm.
★ luce ☆ • ✿ 30 little life mantras ✿
There is always more than one way to do something. Write down as many ways as you can think of to achieve your desired outcome. Then, rank them based on how much time they take, how much money they cost, and how effective you expect them to be. Choose the best.
James Clear • 3-2-1: On finding the best way to do something, how timing shapes communication, and making unreasonable requests
When you see yourself as capable of doing positive things in a future scenario, you build a positive emotional connection with yourself. And this teaches your brain to treat your future self less like a stranger, someone you hardly know and don’t care about at all, and more like someone you know well and love. “Future me is amazing!”
Jane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
The worst mistakes in life are made when you try to do fast what’s meant to be done slow. Real, durable things take a long time to build. Careers. Businesses. Relationships. Health. There are no hacks or shortcuts. The long way is the right way.
The Law of Reversed Effort: Slow Down to Speed Up | The Curiosity Chronicle
So this is the one piece of advice I give everyone who will listen: Start something just to make your life more exciting . It doesn’t matter how small it starts (or stays). Personal projects are a vehicle to explore the things that interest you.
Start something of your own ☼ Vintage Versace exhibition ☼ Experimental restaurant design
Painter Vincent van Gogh on hope:
"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, "What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now."
Yes, evil often seems to surpass... See more
"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, "What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now."
Yes, evil often seems to surpass... See more
3-2-1: The power of one minute, how to discover something useful, and clinging to old truths
What you outsource will atrophy.
Sahil’s Monthly Idea Drop: July 2025 | The Curiosity Chronicle
Being average is incredibly boring and unfulfilling which is why it feels like a slow, unexplainable death.