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#12 Prototyping life shifts
People falsely look at life as all-or-nothing leaps. This is because people tell the story this way and we seek evidence for it. We listen for what we want to hear. Yet if you dig deeper, most people prototype major changes in subtle, slow ways.
People falsely look at life as all-or-nothing leaps. This is because people tell the story this way and we seek evidence for it. We listen for what we want to hear. Yet if you dig deeper, most people prototype major changes in subtle, slow ways.
Paul Millerd • Tweet
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
– Thomas Paine
– Thomas Paine
The interesting thing about a work life is that it is very much like a workday. Most of the hard work is done by simply turning up, facing the task at hand and moving forward, inch by inch, foot by foot, until we look around, admittedly after a much greater time than we expected, but surprised to see it has all been done.
David Whyte • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
Choosing what you do matters a lot more than how you do it
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This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.
– Alan Watts
– Alan Watts
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard Feynman