Erlank Pienaar
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The examined life
What if our worst qualities are actually our best? Recently I listened to an interview with Irish theologist and poet John O’Donohue from 2006 in which he asked what would happen if the things we hate about ourselves, the qualities we despise and can’t stand, are actually the best things about who we are. It was a powerful reframe... See more
What if our worst qualities are actually our best? Recently I listened to an interview with Irish theologist and poet John O’Donohue from 2006 in which he asked what would happen if the things we hate about ourselves, the qualities we despise and can’t stand, are actually the best things about who we are. It was a powerful reframe... See more
Good Billionaires and the Last of Silicon Valley’s Original Founders
When up is down…
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recre
... See more“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! 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. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.... See more
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
The Gap Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stu ff , it ʼ s just not that good. It ʼ s trying to be good, it has potential, but it ʼ s not.
Ira Glass • The Gap
Where does this note go and how can I use this inside sublime. Especially as to how this connects to a specific step within a specific project..?
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you
are fundamentally at war with yourself..
The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you
know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
Own your past. Your life is your lesson. Don’t lie to yourself. In your shadow is your gold.
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work ... See more
Tina Roth Eisenberg • quotes – Page 7 – swissmiss
Only you can change the world. If only I can convince every single human on earth simultaneously of this fact. Life goal.
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it,
play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good
for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it
now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the
signal to spend it now. Something more will aris
... See moreOn creating a Body Of Work as you progress in discovering what you’re thinking of and why you’re thinking of it, then becoming the person who realises that you’re not a fixed entity, but creating yourself anew as you bravely stumble along unbecoming the default mimesis that is hiding your true and ever emergent self.
“It can be hard to appreciate just how much the world will give you what you want after you stop waiting for it to give you what you deserve.
Stop waiting for the world to recognize your potential; start giving the world something positive. Don’t wait for a friend’s apology; reach out and reconnect. Instead of waiting for the perfect partner, become... See more
Stop waiting for the world to recognize your potential; start giving the world something positive. Don’t wait for a friend’s apology; reach out and reconnect. Instead of waiting for the perfect partner, become... See more
Farnam Street • Cold Water
"[This is] the key to the mystery is the old adage "a word to the wise is sufficient." Because this phrase is not only overused, but overused in an indirect way (by prepending the subject to some advice), most people who've heard it don't know what it means. What it means is that if someone is wise, all you have to do is say one word to them, and t
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