Why dont we just do it?
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.
In The Bell Jar, Plath writes (bolding mine):
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and an... See more
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and an... See more
If you believe something, you will find the proof to support it.
an image equals a new horizon which equals a space for action, a collective game plan, and a new story arc initiated.
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
why is this list not the same as the current Nomad portfolio
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
This makes me think about what I'm interested in and what I subscribed to and spend my time listening to do and doing.
And cutting down everything until I can focus on what matters.
the ability to concentrate uh you know to get fascinated with something and really dig into it which as I got older I could choose what I concentrated on and and when I was in high school I was okay at it but I remember being down in my room thinking okay I'm going to work on my homework and do really well this year but then there were these taram
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When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let it go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes end up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. The only art the world gets to enjoy is from creators wh
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I think it’s generally human nature to overestimate risk and overestimate opportunity. And I think people in general would be well advised to try to bias against that piece of human nature. The risks are probably not as big as you perceive and the opportunities might be bigger than you perceive. You say it’s confidence but it maybe be compensating
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- Ole Peters