Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Second, of course it’s difficult to create things; if it wasn’t difficult, everyone would be doing it, and it wouldn’t be special or interesting.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
The more something means to you, the more you’ll remember it. Give moments meaning to remember them. Take away meaning to forget.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
What does it mean to have enough?
Be careful when you say you like or dislike something, because you could change your mind soon.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
This stood out and i think i do this quite a bit?
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
The child who twirls in the rain has no purpose for doing it. The child who runs through the field does not run to get somewhere. The running and the jumping and the playing is not done for meaning or purpose. It is an expression of the elation within. It is not done For joy. It is done Out Of joy.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
This is pure art
Honesty is a core, core, core value. By honesty, I mean I want to be able to just be me. I never want to be in an environment or around people where I have to watch what I say. If I disconnect what I’m thinking from what I’m saying, it creates multiple threads in my mind. I’m no longer in the moment—now I have to be future-planning or
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
I often feel this way. I think most people do
The mind can be drugged, put to sleep; it can be put to sleep pleasantly or violently, and during this sleep there may be dreams. But a mind that is made quiet by discipline, by ritual, by repetition, can never be alert, sensitive and free. This bludgeoning of the mind, subtly or crudely, is not meditation. It is pleasant to chant and to listen to... See more