Jasmine Medina
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Jasmine Medina
The creative compass — letting your creativity guide you. What is your north star? Where do you hope to be?
Herding enables remote orchestration of the human situation, foreclosing action alternatives and thus moving behavior along a path of heightened probability that approximates certainty.
Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
this very effort to “become” is the barrier—because you are already carrying your being with you. You need not become anything—simply realize who you are, that’s all. Simply realize who is hidden within you. Improving, whatsoever you improve, you will always be in anxiety and anguish because the very effort to improve is leading you on a wrong
... See moreOsho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
It’s easier to recognize beauty than it is to create it. You’re good enough to know that what you’re doing isn’t good, but not good enough to produce something great. When you find yourself in this frustrating limbo, the challenge is to never forget what got you there in the first place. Remember that thing that got you into the game.
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James Clear • Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says
Perhaps we’ve spread ourselves too thin, by trying to do too much, too fast, with too little. Or maybe we are just limited by a conventional view of success. When we constantly pursue and prioritise ‘more’ above ‘meaning’, we take wrong turns, box ourselves in,
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
“Okay,” you might be thinking, “so the project of self-improvement is largely unrelated to the project of spiritual awakening, but it couldn’t possibly undermine the awakening process, could it?” Yes, it could. Let me explain. What exactly is this best version of themselves that people want to be? All too often, it’s a socially conditioned figment
... See moreChristopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
It's easier to wish you were something than going out and doing the thing. It's easier to be jealous, that doesn't require any work. Let jealousy be the fuel. Let it ignite the flame within. Let it fight for you.
Good communities incubate innovation and creativity – think of the salons in France where intellectuals used to meet to discuss the latest ideas; the Olympia Academy; la Bande de Picasso. A feeling of belonging allows people to be authentic, to move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset, and to take risks knowing that they have people to... See more
Amanda Ngo • Community-building — amanda ngo
I collapsed into dread. I was so afraid. Afraid that no one was trying to stop this machine. Astounded that no one cared how it spun at unsafe revolutions. I couldn’t recognize myself. Who was this person? No answer. I resigned myself to being the operator of a machine I had no agency over.
It’s scary when you think you can’t stop yourself.
It’s scary when you think you can’t stop yourself.