Jennifer Baez

A fat soul is someone who can live in an open-minded and open-hearted way, filled with a sense of respect and care for the community of life.

Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are so similar that you can’t believe in one without equally respecting the other. They both happen because the world is too complex to allow 100% of your actions to dictate 100% of your outcomes. They are driven by the same thing:

My favorite Wikipedia entry begins: “Ronald James Read was an American philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant.” Ronald Read was born in rural Vermont. He was the first person in his family to graduate high school, made all the more impressive by the fact that he hitchhiked to campus each day. For those who knew Ronald Read,

The hardest thing about this was that I loved the work. And I wanted to work hard. But doing something you love on a schedule you can’t control can feel the same as doing something you hate. There is a name for this feeling. Psychologists call it reactance. Jonah Berger, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, summed it up well:

Though this is so many other scientists disagree with the Gaia theory since they feel like it needs more scientific and recorded proof to be legitimate.  The scientific idea that Earth is like a cell, whose components (like the nucleus, mitochondria etc) comprise of living and non-living beings resonates with a lot of minds and goes with many

A system is a set of things-people, cells, molecules, or whatever-interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time

“The real work has nothing to do with anything “out there.” It has everything to do with what’s in you. It comes from you.”