ethereal lash
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ethereal lash
Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
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If you can relatively easily figure out the underlying explanation for a negative behavioral pattern, then by all means, go for it. But you don’t need to. Sometimes, the search for understanding is just a distraction—or even worse, a justification.
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace
My general rule is when I feel the twinge of distraction or boredom or exhaustion that urges me to put down my book, I must read ten more pages. (you can of course do five, or two, or twenty, or whatever feels right.) Typically i get so re-engaged over those ten more pages that I end up reading twenty or thirty. When talking about this to my... See more
How i read
Perfectionism often wears the mask of high standards , ambition , discipline. It parades itself as virtue, a propriety. In reality, it is rarely about the pursuit of excellence but the terror of being perceived as inadequate.
perfectionism is a form of shame
Most people think of secrets as Easter eggs. They assume that if a secret is important, it’s necessarily going to be hard to find. The best ideas can come from things that are so well-known that they aren’t well-seen.
perell.com • 50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell
I think the world is a mirror. It reflects back to you what you give. You are kind and you receive kindness back. The world is cool and cruel because it works in feedback loops. Not any one thing is isolated.
Now it’s easy to self isolate, and that’s why it’s so depressing. You feed into your own loop of suffering, call it self-dogma. You don’t let
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