Elena
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Elena
" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "
Howard Thurman
Thomas Klaffke • Aliveness: Reframing Productivity
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
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1. They pick a problem to focus on based on interests rooted in early life
2. They have a mission or focus on how they want to change things
3. Reliance on a community of support along the way
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Barrett Brooksx.comFirst you do X
Then you make content about doing X
Then you make content about that content
Then you make content about that content
(loop)
One day you realize you haven't done X for six months
And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction
Then you make content about doing X
Then you make content about that content
Then you make content about that content
(loop)
One day you realize you haven't done X for six months
And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction
Philip Kiely • Tweet
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." - Ray Bradbury
Life does not consist of a set of unrelated dyadic relationships (you and your mum, you and your daughter, you and your best friend). Rather, these dyadic relationships are all embedded within a complex network of relationships where what happens in one dyad spills over and affects what happens in another.