rob hardy
- “I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit” – Elizabeth Gilbert
from Tweet by Oliver Burkeman
Quotes and
- A leading indicator of personal growth is how curious you are able to be with all your emotions - especially the ones you weren't allowed to feel as a kid.
from Tweet by Joe Hudson
- “The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones.” — Todd Rose
from Introduction | The Principles
- rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
from Tweet by hinterlander
self trust and
when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
from A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
- If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more
from Create things that come alive
aliveness and
Trusting yourself looks like finding the courage to override the constant temptations to minimize the small but meaningful steps you’re taking to honor your intuition. Trusting yourself looks like depersonalizing setbacks. Trusting yourself looks like realizing that just because the thing you felt so certain about changed, that doesn’t mean you wer
... See morefrom The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
self trust and
Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves home—inch by inch—to their authentic selves.
from The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler