Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Most individuals have never had enough time, and they’ve never had enough resources, and they’ve never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
If you seek to be a legend in your field, it will help you to understand that you will have to be comfortable being an outcast. For you will not fit into this society. And if you do fit neatly into this society, there is no way that you will be a legend.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
I am defo an outcast
work as childhood conditioned self-worth
I’ve observed a lot of work trauma as rooted in relationships to our efforts in childhood. our relationship to work is tied to ways in which we felt safe and able to express our creativity, or not.
from a young age, we’re conditioned to equate our work to self-worth — trying hard enough and doing enough... See more
I’ve observed a lot of work trauma as rooted in relationships to our efforts in childhood. our relationship to work is tied to ways in which we felt safe and able to express our creativity, or not.
from a young age, we’re conditioned to equate our work to self-worth — trying hard enough and doing enough... See more
Kening Zhu • feeling safe in creative work & business — kening zhu
Because high-resonance storytelling takes precedence over originality. After all, you’ll rarely change someone’s life by telling them something new, but you can deeply affect them by saying something they know to be true so well that it compels them to finally confront it.
Julian Shapiro • Highlights 🥑 Why Your Ideas Are So Bad
This is real storytelling
I swung to the opposite end of the spectrum of doing the bare minimum that I could to stay alive, not planning my weeks, not planning for the future. I stopped measuring myself against the ruler of productivity. I let go of the idea of productivity and I could feel my entire body exhale a sigh of relief.
kening zhu • Transcendence of a Productivity Addict
“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said.
We're never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. We’re human. So instead, we should aim for progress, even the smallest amount.
Daily Stoicx.com"Creativity is the focused combination of unlikely things. Your mind locks onto a certain element and then searches widely for something unexpected that fits with it. What can scuba diving teach you about agriculture? What can trees teach you about public speaking? There is always some connective tissue between disciplines. If you wish to be more
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