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"[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
... See more“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
— Carl Jung
Writer and designer Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, on what causes old age:
“The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia.
Habit is necessary; but it is the habit... See more
“The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia.
Habit is necessary; but it is the habit... See more
3-2-1 Thursday newsletter - James Clear • 3-2-1: How to Connect With Others, What Causes Old Age, and the Recipe for Success
Traveling light means high uncertainty, but also high flexibility, high opportunity. Habit is hanging on, possessed. Letting go of possession(s), become light and open to possibility.
“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... See more
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
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
... 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.
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
... See moreYou are caught in the river of life’s expectations. For you to be alive and knowingly flow with the stream of consciousness, riding the crest of the wave into the future of creation becoming aware of itself through your courageous exploration and the difficult assimilation of life’s lessons, traumas and all. Hanging on to excessive, heavy,
... See moreWriter and scholar C.S. Lewis on what why small choices matter:
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never... See more
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: Two ways to grow, how to criticize, and a simple recipe for finding good opportunities
Sometimes it’s nice to remember all the other people one has been. Especially when settling into hard-core middle-age. I love being this me, but I loved being that me, too.