What makes me tick
by Katharina Sommerkamp · updated 10d ago
What makes me tick
Katharina Sommerkamp added 10d ago
" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "
Howard Thurmanfrom Aliveness: Reframing Productivity by Thomas Klaffke
Katharina Sommerkamp added 16d ago
- What upsets people is not what happens to them, but their thoughts about what happens.
from The Way of Integrity Quotes by Martha N. Beck
Katharina Sommerkamp added 23d ago
- You could theoretically change your life at any moment. Move here, date that person, work on that startup, write that blog, dye your hair, adopt a dog. Should I stay, should I go? I don’t know if this agency is freedom or burden. Perhaps all the best things are both.
Katharina Sommerkamp added 1mo ago
- One of the biggest reasons it gets harder to do new things as you get older is that new things are generally undignified at first (indeed, this is an excellent heuristic for discovering them) and the older you get, the more dignified you're expected to be.
Katharina Sommerkamp added 1mo ago
- “Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”
from Tribe — Sebastian Junger by Sebastian Junger
Katharina Sommerkamp added 1mo ago
- "On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions". Thomas Sowell
Katharina Sommerkamp added 1mo ago
- we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
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- Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.
Katharina Sommerkamp added 1mo ago
I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts were confused. Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
—C.S. Lewis
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