ethereal lash
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ethereal lash
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
... See morean artifacts-driven (not products) iterative process is especially important to drive progress when working with visually-impacted but visually-immature stakeholder groups
Naming something invisible is what allows us to see it.
Jasmine Bina • Surviving Your Personal Brand
Time it took to reach 100 million users worldwide:
Telephone: 75 years
Mobile phone: 16 years
World Wide Web: 7 years
iTunes: 6.5 years
Twitter: 5 years
Facebook: 4.5 years
WhatsApp: 3.5 years
Instagram: 2.5... See more
World of Statisticstwitter.comthe sensitivity to experience
acts as an interesting foil to action and the following of a set plan
When to plan (and follow it) and when to experience? When should I climb? When can I free fall? I think the answer to a happy existence is the skillful balance of the two.
the power of an idea is energetically king
we are influenced by environment, emotion, feeling, bias…
but the activation of realized potential, to guide a step into the mode of imagine and wonder — it transcends plan, logic, and reasoning
we don’t need to over-rationalize a resonating idea
if it resonates, it has done its job.
while y’all are performing i’m making something real.