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In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations timewise, resulting in unnecessary frustration, due to a perceived feeling of failure. Achieving the extraordinary is not a linear process.
The secret is to show up, do the work, and go home.
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a metaphor for this strategy
let me leave you with a metaphor to describe this way.
don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food.
go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things. and wait. trust that the right people will come.
when they do, be hospitable and kind to them. you will recognize them,... See more
let me leave you with a metaphor to describe this way.
don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food.
go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things. and wait. trust that the right people will come.
when they do, be hospitable and kind to them. you will recognize them,... See more
Attention is presence. And presence isn’t just powerful, it can be radical. In a world where attention is monetized, captured, and manipulated - reclaiming it is an act of resistance.
yana yuhai • How to Pay Attention Again
- What that suggests is that our brain is adapted to feeling that the world is a beautiful place. Try to imagine having no sense of beauty at all.
- Alexa: So are you saying that our proclivity, our attraction to beauty is sort of the world's reward to us for being here and being alive and making it worth it in the first place? Carl: Yes.
11. The Inner Lives and Cultural Worlds of Animals – with Carl Safina — Life WorldsLifeworlds is a podcast series that explores how to orient your life around nature. We...
Carl Safina
Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us. - ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
The goal of one-planet thriving has been reinforced by a growing recognition that human beings are not separate from nature but an interdependent part of the living planetary whole.
Roman Krznaric • The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
Small actions, like learning about the ecological roles of species (such as bats or wolves), spending mindful time in nature, or exploring Indigenous perspectives, can help build this deeper philosophical connection. These inner shifts ripple outward, influencing how we view ourselves not as masters of the natural world, but as stewards and... See more
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
I want to understand how we humans do that—how we earn a place on this precious planet, get in the “right relationship” with it.5 So I am focusing on the ways creatures and ecosystems function together in and with the natural world.