Margot
@margotzen
Hi! My name is Margot, and this is my first attempt to cultivate a digital garden of my own :) Welcome!
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The danger of living in possibility versus taking action: how embracing limits and failure builds strength and real growth
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I could become an actor. I could become a great novelist. I could become a CEO. I could be Elon Musk II. But the way the world works is you don achieve anything unless you have limits Having limits and hitting that wall and that resistance is what makes you learn is what makes you great is how the human brain functions
And what I mean by that is
... See more"Functionality creates trust, but it doesn’t create love. Whether it’s the way a waiter remembers your name or how Google Photos quietly curates your best memories into a story, connection comes from the human layer around functionality."
When you’re working, there’s so much self-loathing. Everyone feels like their stuff is awful. When I was at CalArts I was studying painting—I’m a terrible painter—but I remember there’s a stage of a painting that just looks like a mess and then all of a sudden it becomes a painting. Movies are like that too. Magically it starts to take shape. Now I
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Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness:
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
Power can also be formed through softness, kindness, and self trust.
Everything is scary when you’re a bitch but almost nothing is scary when you’re rooted.
Everything is scary when you’re a bitch but almost nothing is scary when you’re rooted.