[wisdom]
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more
Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything
The source of power: “There are people that things happen to. And there are people that make things happen. The latter run the world.”
“Everyone goes through life for the first time. We’re all figuring it out for the first time.” – Zayd Ali
“The past is neutral. It only matters when the ego turns it into a story to explain your present.” – Naval Ravikant
‘Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.’
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
Winston Churchill said:
The problem with this advice is that it means we spend an enormous amount of time in senseless... See more
Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
The problem with this advice is that it means we spend an enormous amount of time in senseless... See more
Often give in
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
-Tolkien