Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
Memories can also be thought of as dreamlike. They’re more a romantic story than a faithful document of a life event. And there’s good content to be found in these dreamy recollections we have of past experiences.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Good input=good output: to be a great writer, we must be great readers. I’ve found that the quality of the texts I read influences the quality of the writing I produce.
3 of Seneca's Metaphors for Taking Notes
Any finite life—even the best one you could possibly imagine—is therefore a matter of ceaselessly waving goodbye to possibility.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
While we naturally understand that writing is a good way to share ideas with others, we under-appreciate just how much good writing helps us think about an idea ourselves. Writing is not only a means of communication, it enables us to practice reasoning.
fs.blog • How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught - Farnam Street
What if the answer to improving your life isn’t to do more? What if the answer is to focus on less?
We all want the complicated world we live in to make sense. So we tell ourselves stories to fill in the gaps of what are effectively blind spots.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
“Writing is often the process by which you realize you do not understand what you are talking about.”
