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The way the normal human ego tries to fill its emptiness and deal with its discomfort is by comparing itself to other people. All the time.
Timothy Keller • The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
This impulse is helpful most of the time, but compounded over one’s life it stops us from moving towards what Gilovich and Davidai call our “ideal self.” When people reflect on their lives, these are the things that people regret most – not moving towards their ideal selves.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Our creative brain’s moderator - The Saliency Network - is overwhelmed by the wrong stuff: endless notifications, pings, stressors 😵💫
But, I think the cocktail party effect illustrates the way we can return to our most creative selves: What stands out to you - in the world - that other people don’t notice? That makes... See more
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Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.
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sent by James Clear
James Clear • Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need...
Getting smart again 🧠🫶⭐️ #neuroscience #stemgirls #stopdoomscrolling #growthmindset #wellnessinfluencer
instagram.com“The whole self-esteem movement taught us erroneously that praising intelligence, talent, abilities would foster self-confidence, self-esteem, and everything great would follow. But we’ve found it backfires. People who are praised for talent now worry about doing the next thing, about taking on the hard task, and not looking talented, tarnishing... See more
James Clear • Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event
What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has
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