I wish, sometimes, briefly, I wasn’t so aware, informed, sensitive, self important, arrogant, compassionate, and (obviously) emotional. It is very painful to be a highly sensitive person. I’ve spent many years actually trying to dumb/numb/slow myself down.

I call this the high price of awareness.

I wonder what the experience of life is like for all t

Dismayed. Disillusioned. Disenfranchised. Depressed.

Struggling to understand

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90 percent of success is not getting distracted.

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Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.

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The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person who negotiates with themselves every day.

Let inertia work for you.

- Shane Parrish

Harry Dry rules for copywriting:

1) A great sentence is a good sentence made shorter.

2) Writing great copy begins with having something to say in the first place.

3) Copy is like food. How it looks matters.

4) Since the look of copy matters so much, don't write copy in Google Docs. Write it in Figma (so you can write and design at the same time).

5) Ka

the goal is not to separate the strands, it's to document the tangle.

(Ann Friedman)

From Letters to the Intense Minds by Imi Lo

This today. As life is pushing me towards a change… something I might have asked for but also maybe only half consciously.

Or I want it to be exactly the way I want it. I wanted EVERYTHING. To give up nothing but to have everything I wanted.

How can I be so utterly enraptured, so intoxicatingly optimistic ab

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, b

“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. I have tried this experiment a thousand times and I have never been disappointed.

The more I look at a thing, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I want to se

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.“ -P Drucker

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