Isabel Gates
@izgates
Isabel Gates
When you’re genuinely curious about the world, when you let that curiosity guide your reading, your thinking, and your creating, you become a magnet for ideas, conversations, and opportunities. When you’re interested, you’re never boring. And when you’re interesting, the world can’t help but pay attention.
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
“Don’t worry about being the most interesting person in the room, just try to be the most interested person in the room.
• The interested person asks about others and leaves a good impression because people like talking about themselves.
• The interested person is genuinely curious about someone’s craft and learns a lot about how things work.
• The
James Clear • 3-2-1: Starting the new year the right way, how to stay focused, and a lesson on long-term thinking
“Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow.
The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took to years to produce.
Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.”
Criticizing vs Creating
criticism and creativity
The famous Anton Ego speech in Ratatouille:
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement.
We thrive on negative criticism.
Which is fun to write and to read.
But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the
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Letting people be. Letting them mispronounce a word, talk too much about a show they love, or get excited about something you don't understand.
You don't have to get it, just be kind.
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Here is my list as to why being a hater never works, unless your goal is to be a hate-react critic through and through:
1. Attracting haters who love hater-content might feel fun and validating at first, but haters are nobody's friend. You're always next.
2. Anyone who is a public figure or experiences themselves being talked about, reviewed, etc,
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