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- I am also slowly learning that being present is not just about giving my full attention to whatever is happening right now. It is also about recognising that what I have is good, and then wanting what I have.
- “You can create a lot of meaning in your own life by helping someone else do something that is meaningful to them.”
from 3-2-1: On creating meaning, the remarkable odds of your existence, and life instructions by James Clear
- “The ultimate question that I have: how can we create cities that are big enough to give people economic opportunity, but small enough to give people love and others in their lives that touch their hearts?”
from Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes by Anthony Pompliano
- This is maybe the single most important core of human psychology - people want to reinforce narratives about themselves. If you’re marketing, don’t sell them a thing, sell them a self image that your thing happens to reinforce.
- This is one of those polarities I'm learning to embrace: that you can see improvement in many things, but still you never really stop worrying; you just get better at dealing with it.
from 2041 by Julian Wong
- e·qua·nim·i·ty
/ˌekwəˈnimədē,ˌēkwəˈnimədē/
noun- mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation.
from equanimity - Google Search
- When we insist that we could only ever effectively love someone who’s been perfectly “healed” — who will not struggle, accidentally hurt us, trigger us, say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or participate in any other uncomfortable display of humanity — we are reinforcing, and perhaps projecting, our own beliefs that we have to be perfect in or... See more
The “5 salaries” idea: jobs pay you financially, educationally, psychologically, socially, and in freedom.
- In the absence of strong convictions about what you want from life, you will always default to wanting more money. It’s the lowest common denominator of desire in a society with any semblance of upward mobility. The key to escaping this cycle is first establishing your priorities (family dynamics, geography, lifestyle, whatever) , and then figuring... See more
from Why Don't We Do What We Want? by Jack Raines