Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
- All the grit, persistence, and motivation in the world won’t do you any good if you’re working on the wrong thing. In fact, it will do the opposite.
Choosing what to pursue is more important than choosing how to pursue it. Make sure you’re facing the right direction before you start running.from Are You Ruining Your Life? | Your Next Breakthrough by Mark Manson
- “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
— Christopher Morley - “The strategy required to find a great opportunity (lots of saying yes and exploring widely) is different from the strategy required to make the most of a great opportunity (lots of saying no and remaining focused).”
Everyone arrives at knowledge of the world from a personal point of view and is not the poorer for it. Each person understands life on the basis of small personal events. Firsthand experience is what matters. It is by being grounded in what we know and what we have experienced that we can move out into greater complexities.
from Tremor: A Novel by Teju Cole
- ‘Blog posts’ might be the answer. But I have read blogs for many years and most blog posts are the triumph of the hare over the tortoise. They are meant to be read by a few people on a weekday in 200420ya and never again, and are quickly abandoned—and perhaps as Assange says, not a moment too soon. (But isn’t that sad? Isn’t it a terrible ROI fo... See more
from About This Website
- Metamorphic words…attempt to change the author in unpredictable ways, which you can think of as an intrinsic reward of sorts…If you don’t like, or are bored with, who you are right now, whether as a writer, or more generally as a person, you can write yourself into an unpredictable new version. It’s a kind of disruptive self-authorship lottery.
I don’t write to simply generate a 1,200 word output. I consider writing to be an extension of my curiosity, and the writing process itself is what turns a rough idea into a finished product. [...] Writing is a metamorphosis that turns vague abstractions into novel ideas, but you have to go through the writing process to connect the various points
... See morefrom From Chasing Goals To Falling In Love With The Process by Thomas Klaffke
- I think most people are bad interviewers, including me. I’ve missed a bunch, and I think the core reason for that actually isn’t the interview; it’s the interviewees. Interviewees are so good at interviewing. ... I think everyone, including me, overvalues their ability to select talent in the interview process. I see that as overconfidence.
from Your Mental Diet by David Brooks
- “So much can be accomplished in one focused hour, especially when that hour is part of a routine, a sacred rhythm that becomes part of your daily life.”
— Dani Shapirofrom Your Mental Diet by David Brooks