Mateo Balaña Paemen
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Mateo Balaña Paemen
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world.
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
Dylano • Writing in the 21st Century: Redux
Saying No to Being BusyAs a society, we've fallen into a trap of busyness and overwork. In many ways, we have mistaken all this activity to be something meaningful. The underlying thought seems to be, “Look how busy I am? If I'm doing all this work, I must be doing something important.” And, by extension, “I must be important because I'm so busy.”W... See more
James Clear • The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work
choices and
Let us blaze new trails. Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art and good writing can be good selling.
The tip: Read 20 pages to start the day.
How to Read More: The Simple System I'm Using to Read 30+ Books Per Year
How to Read More: The Simple System I'm Using to Read 30+ Books Per Year
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The word priority didn't always mean what it does today.In his best-selling book, Essentialism (audiobook), Greg McKeown explains the surprising history of the word and how its meaning has shifted over time.“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for... See more
James Clear • The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work
What happens when children are denied this kind of spontaneous free play - denied the space to pretend? The most extreme end of research - and it is admittedly extreme - can be found in the work of psychiatrist Stuart Brown. After the 1966 shooting at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman short forty-six people from the top of a tower on t
... See more“In the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
How you do one thing is how you do everything