Dipan Patel
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Dipan Patel
Your brain is there to keep you alive, not happy. You need to do things that make you happy not just expect it from your intellect.
When you look at the math:
Cost of owning = interest + HOA + insurance + taxes + closing costs + costs when you sell + repairs - principal - appreciation - tax/insurance write offs / # of months you have lived there.
Also need to factor in what you're missing by not investing the down... See more
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The holidays are a good time to reconnect w/ people who’ve helped you get where you are. Find your senior year English teacher, say you appreciate her patience. Write to your last boss. You won’t be giving up anything. Gratitude feels good both to receive & to give.
X. It’s what’s happening
A good reminder from Scott Galloway.
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
- Gary Provost
admiration as instruction
And if you don’t know where to look to find your gifts: notice what you are inspired by. Notice who you admire. Our sources of inspiration are our guides. They take us towards our magic. They show us where to look to find our gifts. The inexplicable resonance we feel with people, places, things, and art is the universe
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Did I write today?
Did I exercise today?