Michaela Petrova
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Michaela Petrova
- "The shortest answer is doing the thing." - Ernest Hemingway
Stop talking about the thing. Stop asking about the thing. Stop gathering more information about the thing.
Just do the thing. 
- I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid, ... See more
from Forty Years, Forty Lessons by Zoe Scaman
But that’s no different from what mothers have had to do since the dawn of time: sacrifice the present, in hopes of a better future.
from The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) by N. K. Jemisin
data can be used as an accountability shield, deflecting responsibility for a judgment call. People are more comfortable making decisions based on hard data in part because they can fall back on that data if the decision turns out to be wrong.
from Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord
Whenever you hear yourself saying “I have to…”, change it to “I choose to…” Remembering you have choices does wonders for your well-being.
Julie Zuho
The extinction of curiosity stifles our imaginations, paralyzing our ability to author better futures.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
- And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.
from LF11 - Cohort Futures by Brian Dell
