Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
On the airplane, we are told to secure our oxygen masks before we help another with their oxygen mask. This is beautifully symbolic. For the world teaches us exactly the opposite. And it is for this reason that man suffocates in a world filled with oxygen.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
Look after yourself first
After one is given a prescription . . . or after he begins to follow a prescription . . . his allegiance, his focus, his attention, his intent is centered upon the prescription. Not upon the thing he is trying to attain.
Kapil Gupta • There Is No HOW
This is whats happening to me right now, Im more focused on the how to right good essays but the outcome is to understand my challenges. That is the focus
I have to smile, thinking about what my former self would say. But the former self is not always right. We shouldn’t preserve our frst opinions as if they reflect our pure, untarnished, true nature. They’re often just the result of inexperience or a temporary phase. Old opinions shouldn’t defne who we are in the future.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
read this when the mind is loud
Old opinions. Powerful
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
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
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
Money can represent freedom, safety, experience, generosity, attractiveness, power, or whatever you want. But really, money is as neutral as math. Because it’s neutral, people have projected all kinds of meaning onto it. Your biggest obstacle to getting rich is the harmful meaning you’ve attached to it. Your biggest advantage can be projecting a
... See moreDerek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Money is the projections you give it. Ive always had some fearful relationship with money and this is worth exploring
Everything is valid and everything is truthful, because Law of Attraction lets everything be. The question is not whether it’s right or wrong, whether their approach is right or wrong, or whether my approach is right or wrong. The question is: Does their approach feel good to me? And if it doesn’t, then I choose a different approach.
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