Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Julian's Insight #1
Hard work can be lazy
Working hard for a long time without checking what the better things to be working on are is a hidden form of laziness. A laziness that disguises itself as something to be proud of.
—Julian
Julian Shapiro • Highlights 🥑 Why Your Ideas Are So Bad
Hard work disguised as laziness
Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
paulgraham.com • What You'll Wish You'd Known
I love this: “Productivity can only move as a line through time. Creativity can fold time itself.” — @farbood
Anne-Laure Le Cunffx.comChildren coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more to contemplate. This generation gap that you are talking about, it has ever been thus. Each new generation, every new individual, that... See more
There is a search for something permanent, is there not, in most of us?—something we can cling to, something which will give us assurance, a hope, a lasting enthusiasm, a lasting certainty, because in ourselves we are so uncertain. We do not know ourselves. We know a lot about facts, what the books have said; but we do not know for ourselves, we do
... See moreJ. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
No book or resource will teach us more than experience. You can't live on theory. You have to experience the thing you want first. You will find the thing that you attach yourself. A lens. Something to help you see life through. Everyone can do with this thing. What is it for you?
The artist who’s into discipline
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
Are real artists not disciplined?
You have different sides to your personality, with conflicting needs. Instead of ignoring one, make sure you balance them. Balance time with others and time alone. Balance your need for stability with your need for surprise. Balance input and output, consumption and creation, stability and adventure, body and spirit. Your opposing needs become each
... See moreDerek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Theres a strong realisation right now that i do require balance. Whats lacking right now is social interactions with people.
People don’t do this kind of thing because they have all kinds of extra time and energy for it; they do this kind of thing because their creativity matters to them enough that they are willing to make all kinds of extra sacrifices for it.