Mirabilia Magpie
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Mirabilia Magpie
Define Your Way of Life
"But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."
This is my favorite insight from the letter: Identify how you want to live, not what you want to achieve.
So often people focus all their energy on the summits—but
... See morethis: Stop postponing your happiness. Be happy now. Your thoughts and beliefs do create your reality, but only when your present state is joyful. I realized I was running on empty and the fuel I desperately needed was happiness. I did have much to be happy about, but I was so obsessed and stressed out about meeting our revenue goals that my
... See moreVishen Lakhiani • The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms
How I changed my life
1. I started writing online, even when no one was reading.
2. I started using the internet like a lab testing ideas, aesthetics, and workflows to see what clicked.
3. I began treating every conversation as either energy-giving or energy-draining, then designed my life around the givers.
4. I started screenshotting things that... See more
1. I started writing online, even when no one was reading.
2. I started using the internet like a lab testing ideas, aesthetics, and workflows to see what clicked.
3. I began treating every conversation as either energy-giving or energy-draining, then designed my life around the givers.
4. I started screenshotting things that... See more
GREG ISENBERG • Tweet
Pick one thing. Cultivate a desire. Visualize it. Plan a sustainable path. Identify needs, triggers, and substitutes. Tell your friends. Track meticulously. Self-discipline is a bridge to a new self-image.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
What’s most interesting about this?
Alison Jones • Exploratory Writing: Everyday magic for life and work
One of the more surprising findings of recent research is how commonly awe can be found: in museums, theatres, parks, ponds, while listening to a busker, or even, surprisingly, in micro doses, while watching a commercial or reading a story.
Julia Baird • Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark
By “magic,” I’m referring to a sense of wonder and deep satisfaction—because life itself is so mysterious.
Adyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
The world, I've discovered, is a masterful flirt. It leaves little gifts everywhere—the way morning light catches in spider webs, how rain releases that earthy sweetness into the air (petrichor, they call it, though no word could fully capture that particular alchemy of water and dust that smells like pure possibility), the particular green of new... See more
flirting with the world
Enchantment is small wonder magnified through meaning, fascination caught in the web of fable and memory. It relies on small doses of awe, almost homeopathic: those quiet traces of fascination that are found only when we look for them.