Mike Monroe
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Mike Monroe
Comparison is the thief of joy when applied broadly, but the teacher of skills when applied narrowly.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On comparison, consistency, and what’s not going to change
Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
I’m thinking about how malleable the world is, and how easy it is to forget that. The world has, many times throughout history, reconfigured itself around strong visions.
Our desires, motivations and behaviors are constantly being shaped by incentives and systems we aren’t even aware of. So much genius and money has gone into a metaphor that... See more
Our desires, motivations and behaviors are constantly being shaped by incentives and systems we aren’t even aware of. So much genius and money has gone into a metaphor that... See more
sari azout • Taste, Conviction, Elon Musk
the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
In cultivating compassion we draw from the wholeness of our experience—our suffering, our empathy, as well as our cruelty and terror. It has to be this way. Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
... See morePema Chodron • Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
The two scarce elements of our economy are trust and attention.
