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Attachment to a singular narrative is like pinning an insect to a board and measuring it: if you aren’t watching it in flight, you’re missing the point.
from Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta
something that we own and get to control seems to make life worse. Inevitably, we become obsessed with “using it well,” whereupon we discover an unfortunate truth: the more you focus on using time well, the more each day begins to feel like something you have to get through, en route to some calmer, better, more fulfilling point in the future, whic
... See morefrom Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
the brevity of life to be the defining problem of human existence: we’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push... See more
from 3-2-1: The simple way to have a good day, why inspiration is unnecessary, playing small vs playing big
- There's a great quote that Nick Saban said. He said that average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached, and great players want to be told the truth. Michael had a giant ego and a giant drive, but he would run up to the coach and tell me what I need to get better at.
from Passion & Pain by Patrick O'Shaughnessy