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a twenty-something girl just trying to make it in a world where brain rotting is the new normal. ( pfp @/peat0t on ig )
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It starts with flipping the script on “pay myself first” — not with my money, but with my most irreplaceable asset, my time.
Why I pay myself first—with my time.
"The ‘safe path’ is not actually safe. In fact it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous to your dreams. Safety murders your ambition. Murders your sense of adventure. Safety is a serial killer. But it operates in a slow, boring fashion. Like a pillow suffocating an old-man on a hospital bed."
https://www.shaanpuri.com/essays/someday
https://www.shaanpuri.com/essays/someday
We need also to cultivate the courage to think about all the things that could happen, the things that are unpleasant to think about, the unusual, the unexpected, the unlikely. It’s not just a matter of reducing our anxiety about exaggerated uncertainties, it’s also about finding certainty in the unknowns—the risk factors, what goes bump in the
... See moreRyan Holiday • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)
Sometimes people think I’m an idiot for doing this, taking all this time, but I think it’s actually part of my work. I’m enjoying it, but it’s work. I’m doing my own PR.
Charlie Sextro • Filmmaker Sean Baker on not giving up – The Creative Independent
Big ideas don’t show up fully formed, standing in our path. They need to be coaxed unto the open through persistent inquiry and exploration.
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not
Christa Nicholson • The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson