Mark Rudden
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Mark Rudden
“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
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of
... See moreIt’s nice to be important – but it’s more important to be nice.
310 / Crafting work on your own terms
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." — Lucy Larcom
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 of
... See moreTalent 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
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward
