Kojo
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Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
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Once the habit of reading has taken hold—usually when we are very young—it cannot be easily dislodged.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
Remember, there is a difference between a critic and someone offering a critique. The critic will level judgments against your writing, your chances of succeeding, or you personally.
Elizabeth Lyon • Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore
Don’t seek to change others; change yourself. Just mind your own mind and let others mind theirs.
Elissa Epel PhD • The Wim Hof Method
First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its
... See moreErik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media, reading text somehow remains more refined, more seductive.
Prior work has linked curiosity to happiness and innovation—two phenomena that are highly desirable in many cultures and societies. Curiosity is correlated with flourishing and physical activity, and is anticorrelated with depression.22 Moreover, curious people are often innovative people who have the capacity to be world changers by imagining a
... See morePerry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
I Didn't Do The Thing Today — Extraordinary Routines
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Exploration often involves questioning the status quo and doesn’t always produce useful information. But it also means not settling for the first possible solution—and so it often yields better remedies.
Francesca Gino • The Business Case for Curiosity
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