Nick Rabjohn

journaling is less about recording life’s events and more about capturing who you were in a specific moment. it’s not about documenting every detail or creating a perfect record. instead, it’s about holding onto the fleeting, the small things we think we’ll remember forever but rarely do.

Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, "I must," then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity.

As knowledge tasks become automatable, learning itself will become the paramount human work and, therefore, anyone’s most marketable skill. Today’s accelerated cycle—learn, innovate, implement, automate, learn again—means humans must be relentlessly curious.

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself. Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

The Germans have a lovely saying for the benefits of keeping an idle (or idling) mind: ‘ die Seele baumeln lassen’ , meaning ‘let the soul dangle’.

I've posted this before, but it’s so beautiful that it bears posting again. Joan Didion on Hemingway as her major influence. https://t.co/mjcPJI4ouR