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The appropriate amount of effort is zero
expandingawareness.org
Sam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more. I feel the same way about the pursuit of self-knowledge. If you’ve never looked within, you should probably start. But if you look within all the time, maybe... See more
max nuss • The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
“You can't wait for healing to feel whole in gratitude. You have to actually feel wholeness and gratitude for your healing to begin. You can't wait for wealth to feel abundance. That would be the old model of cause and effect. You would have to feel abundance ahead of the actual experience to generate wealth.” -Dr. Joe Dispenza
phoebe • Dr. Joe Dispenza
By their very nature, artists lead a solitary life. Their art education rarely, if ever, teaches them anything about running their business, or emotionally surviving the solitude and hard work.
Povey has some suggestions based upon 50 years of doing nothing other than this.
Become good at... See more
edwardpoveyinstagram.comReal Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age
Jeff Goins • 3 highlights
amazon.com
When you wait, you lose momentum. And momentum is incredibly powerful because when you’re inspired, you act—and you do it with enthusiasm.
Erifili Gounari • literally just do things
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more
Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything
I held on to those other sources of income for so long because I never wanted to burden my writing with the responsibility of paying for my life. I knew better than to ask this of my writing, because over the years, I have watched so many other people murder their creativity by demanding that their art pay the bills. I’ve seen artists drive
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