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There is a common issue of over-optimizing the metrics in business, which can damage the whole system.
Doing the wrong thing efficiently is actually worse than doing the right thing badly.
– Rory Sutherland
Disclaimer aside, the best answer I've come up with is that the most likable, charismatic, enjoyable people to be around are people who demand nothing of you.
Carmen • People who demand nothing of you (or, notes on charismatic people)
When people or groups become too enamored with mountaintops, we should ask ourselves whether their euphoria comes from love or from the experience of supremacy.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
If you want to decipher who you are, it’s good to begin with the question of what stories have been told about you. Do this not because they are true but because they will help you locate the mirages and their origins. They will help you rend mask from flesh. They may also help you grab hold of something real.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“There can be a real meeting between two people at the point where they always felt marooned. Right at the edge.” Allen agrees:
In the overlap between people’s boundaries there is potential for interesting meetings and the potential for collapses.
Donald Winnicott • Article
Limits may slow us down long enough to breathe in what we already have, but they do not reduce meaning. In some cases, they may generate more. We’re not designed to be at capacity all the time, endlessly stimulated by activities, saturated in tasks to tick off... To remind ourselves of our limits is a kindness.
Donald Winnicott • Article
"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"