rob hardy

The fear of making mistakes is a particularly strong dampener on one’s learning. You can’t learn if you can’t make mistakes. I like the idea that mastery is simply a very intimate understanding of all the possible mistakes one could make.

Demons must be named to be defeated, just as our deepest and most vile urges or emotions must be acknowledged to be integrated

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."

~ Picasso

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

—Carl Jung

When we mistake spreading ideas for taking real action, we overlook a crucial asymmetry: ideas and actions distribute their consequences wildly differently across time and space.

A stupid idea—one that seduces with utopian dreams—can viralize for months or years, infiltrating millions of minds long before it ever collides with reality through... See more

Forgiveness is not the absence of vengefulness. It's feeling the fullness of a righteous, justified grief at a genuine injury, & choosing mercy instead. It's a reclamation of dignity & power.

It's not saying there was never a debt! Only that it doesn't have to be paid back.