Wisdom
It’s nice to be important – but it’s more important to be nice.
310 / Crafting work on your own terms
“Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”
— Glennon Doyle
— Glennon Doyle
Brain Food: Positive Inertia
Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.
Brain Food: Seizing the Right Moments
90 percent of success is not getting distracted.
Brain Food: Seizing the Right Moments
“The short-term crowd is always too distracted to notice the long-term crowd slowly compounding.
An investor obsessing over daily economic data misses the big picture. A teenager chasing fleeting popularity neglects to develop genuine interests and skills. A co-worker stops paying attention to the details to chase attention. All chase false stimuli... See more
An investor obsessing over daily economic data misses the big picture. A teenager chasing fleeting popularity neglects to develop genuine interests and skills. A co-worker stops paying attention to the details to chase attention. All chase false stimuli... See more
Brain Food: The Rarest Thing You Possess
“If you ask other people about every decision you make, you're going to end up doing exactly what everyone else does and getting the same results that everyone else gets.”
Brain Food: The Rarest Thing You Possess
“It can be hard to appreciate just how much the world will give you what you want after you stop waiting for it to give you what you deserve.
Stop waiting for the world to recognize your potential; start giving the world something positive. Don't wait for a friend's apology; reach out and reconnect. Instead of waiting for the perfect partner, becom... See more
Stop waiting for the world to recognize your potential; start giving the world something positive. Don't wait for a friend's apology; reach out and reconnect. Instead of waiting for the perfect partner, becom... See more
Brain Food: Cold Water
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe i... See more
Brain Food: Cold Water
What we see is sometimes not what is actually there. Or, in the words of Sherlock Holmes: “We see, but we do not observe.”
If you do the right thing for the wrong reason, the work becomes corrupted, impure, and ultimately self-destructive.