Matthieu de Gaudemar
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Matthieu de Gaudemar
Taste is not the same as correctness, though. To do something correctly is not necessarily to do it tastefully. For most things, correctness is good enough, so we skate by on that as the default. And there are many correct paths to take. You’ll be able to cook a yummy meal, enjoy the movie, build a useable product, don a shirt that fits. But taste... See more
In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations timewise, resulting in unnecessary frustration, due to a perceived feeling of failure. Achieving the extraordinary is not a linear process.
The secret is to show up, do the work, and go home.
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Autonomy frays as pervasive nudging and infinite scroll dull the habit of deliberate, self-directed thought. We risk becoming subjects of the feed rather than stewards of our minds.
As far as we've come as a species, I think it's fair to say that we're a mess. We die. We get sick. We are chock full of cognitive biases and mental shortcuts. We do not perceive reality as it is. We fight with each other, endlessly, despite being a single species sharing a pale blue dot hurtling through space.
There are investments you can’t make from a structured, nine-to-five, narrowly teleological environment. You have to let your life go fallow sometimes, like a crop rotation giving the land time to bring forth new fertility.
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But what will you build? A business empire designed to make money with which you can buy yachts? You will have only escaped back into the metaphysical wage-cage. Haul yourself back out and take your appointed sentence of years of hard leisure while you search for inspiring purposes that are truly worth your life and for the skills and secret... See more
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“Desire that arises in agitation is an expression of the ego; desire that arises in stillness is an expression of the soul.”
Haley Nahman • #197: What is "personal style"?
The man of action serenely regards ruin as the most likely possible outcome, mitigates it where he can, and leaps anyway. He rejects the comfortable half-existence of drifting with the indeterminate human tide and manifests his bold vision into the world. Ruin is largely an illusion in the modern world anyway.