Mirko
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Mirko
I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted.
Louise Millerx.comIf you fear that you’d waste your life, you must define what “not wasted” is to yourself."
Remember that nothing is perfect on its own. Everything good in life requires effort, a daily deposit. The grass isn't greener on the other side, the grass is greener where you water it.
— Sahil Bloom
our instinct is to rush through anything that doesn’t feel instantly meaningful. the second a moment feels slow, we distract ourselves. we pick up our phone, start planning the next thing, or tell ourselves the real day will begin once we’re being productive again. but some of the most quietly meaningful moments don’t announce themselves. they need... See more
It’s a funny quirk of the human condition that sometimes simply asking, of a given task, “how would someone much, much better than me approach this?” immediately makes you better at it.
— Cate Hall (https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-instantly-be-better-at-anything)
At the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one option among many.
but clarity doesn’t come before action. it comes after. it comes from doing something — anything — and learning from it, even if it’s not the “right” thing.