Wisdom
It’s nice to be important – but it’s more important to be nice.
310 / Crafting work on your own terms
If you do the right thing for the wrong reason, the work becomes corrupted, impure, and ultimately self-destructive.
“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
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.
– Unknown
Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently
23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
90 percent of success is not getting distracted.
Brain Food: Seizing the Right Moments
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
Mark Twain Quotes (Author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
Regarding "one of those days", when everything seems to go wrong: most of these aren't really all that bad, we just make them that way by noticing the everyday negative things more, and by creating opportunities for entropy to manifest simply by expecting it to. Most of "those" days can be conquered by doggedly refusing to accept a whole day
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