Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
The world of news is noisy, because they have to hype it. They try to get you to pay attention to something that’s not actually important. They create a false sense of urgency, social status, fear, shock, or any tricks possible to manipulate your psychological triggers, and ultimately help them profit. By contrast, the truly important things are
... See moreDerek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
make art not content and playing in decades
The most important things are quiet and free because people cant profit from them, they gift them and profit from donations.
When you’re gone, your work shows who you were. Not your intentions. Not what you took in. Only what you put out.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Would my work help Nirvaan? That's the filter
If you update the language and some references, books written thousands of years ago sound like they could have been written today. The human condition remains the same. Your book has all the wisdom you need. Read metaphorically, and apply it to your modern life.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Timeless topics will never get old. Reading metophorically is a good one. I know i can do more of this
By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
read this when the mind is loud
Fear and hope. How its linked. I resonate, ive lived in hope for years and tooks me years to admit
Don’t assume that the reader knows what you know. Rewind back to the beginning, and start over again. Make the whole experience human, and create a path that carries the ebbs and flows you felt when you first thought about it.
Lawrence Yeo • The Ultimate Guide to Visual Storytelling
Don’t point out the obvious problem. It’s a journey and series of events. This must be felt by the reader for it to resonate
When we sing in the shower, we hardly expect applause. In fact, that would be awfully weird.
But online, when just about anyone might be clicking, watching or sharing, it’s disappointing to put your work into the world and hear nothing.
Nothing but a black hole that absorbs your best work and reflects nothing back.
And if that happens again and again,... See more
But online, when just about anyone might be clicking, watching or sharing, it’s disappointing to put your work into the world and hear nothing.
Nothing but a black hole that absorbs your best work and reflects nothing back.
And if that happens again and again,... See more
Crickets
Because never in your life have you met a person who did not have a ‘message’ for you, or attempt to ‘lead’ you somewhere, or get you to ‘do something.’ Whether it was ‘for your own good’ or not. Regardless of whether it was benevolent, evil, well-intentioned, or holy.
Kapil Gupta • There Is No HOW
Everything has been designed to lead us somewhere