Renee De Four
@reneedefour
Renee De Four
I need to look closer and see, did my pattern put this system, this reality, this task, this project, this expectation in place? Did this come from my pattern or come from my higher self?
Michelle Rohr • Why I'm Currently Not Delegating in My Business — Secret O.W.L. Society | Planners, Passive Income, and Personal Growth
Whenever possible (and it’s almost always possible), have someone do a day or two of work with you before you hire her; you can do this at night or on the weekends.
Sam Altman • How to hire
The challenge is to structure one’s workflow in a way that insight and new ideas can become the driving forces that push us forward. We do not want to make ourselves dependent on a plan that is threatened by the unexpected, like a new idea, discovery – or insight.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
🌀 Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
Here is the answer to the question I asked in the first post. Agnes Martin discovered that painting was all she needed to be fulfilled in this life. I wonder at what age in life did she discover this? Was it an innate knowing or did she struggle?
I envy people like this who know what their “thing” is. I’m 30 years old and it frustrates me deeply that I don’t have a strong affiliation with one thing. Whether that’s writing, or reading, painting or playing an instrument. I’m starting to wonder if I need to try new things?
What I do enjoy - building workflows with digital tools, solving problems by creating systems does not feel like an artistic thing!
I can build and perfect a Notion or Tana workflow for hours until a solution is found but something feels like it’s missing. Maybe it’s because it’s not tangible like painting?
I don’t know but I think I need to pick up pottery - maybe that will be my thing.
Update 1/4/25 9:15 pm - This quote also reminds me of Hirayama from Perfect Days. He too discovered something far more precious than material accumulation.
My ears pricked up when Giles Mcmullen suggested that while reading you close the book after every page & write down everything you remember.
Chad 'Curly' Hall • Reading to Actually Understand
Corpus is a collection, group, or body of writings. A collection of works on a single topic, or by a single author.
I propose a Corpus Proprius is the aggregation of all the things we know, things we wrote about, ideas we had, observations we observed.
Everything.
I propose a Corpus Proprius is the aggregation of all the things we know, things we wrote about, ideas we had, observations we observed.
Everything.
Christopher Roosen • Time and Entropy Waits For No One, So Build Your Own Corpus Proprius, Your Personal Information Network — Christopher Roosen
his skin and teeth suggested an indifference to hygiene.