agnieszka sierzputowska
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agnieszka sierzputowska
used to believe this too, quietly, in the way most of us do. i thought that the people who stayed up the latest, who answered emails at 1 a.m., who wore their dark circles like medals, were the ones really going places. i mistook their depletion for discipline. i convinced myself that if i just kept pushing, kept crossing off tasks while my body
... See morebjörk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
Good work should do at least one of these things: fund the life you actually want to live, align with values you can defend at dinner parties, surround you with people who challenge you to grow, or teach you skills that compound like interest over decades. Great work does several of these at once
The proper response to this situation, we’re often told today, is to render ourselves indistractible in the face of interruptions: to learn the secrets of “relentless focus”—usually involving meditation, web-blocking apps, expensive noise-canceling headphones, and more meditation—so as to win the attentional struggle once and for all. But this is a... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
John Green
Art requires access to the imagination, a notoriously difficult place to visit. The imagination fuels an idea. The artist acts urgently, often impulsively, on that idea but brings conscious rigor to the evaluation of what the imagination has spewed. Ultimately, experience, intellect, insight, and drive enable them to shape the work and then to edit
... See moreAdam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
Stop keeping everything in your head.
I'm serious. Every time you solve a problem and don't document how, you're basically deleting that knowledge for everyone else (especially future you who forgets things).
Write down your thinking. Capture your process. Record your... See more
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