rob hardy

my spiritual practice? oh you mean having hard conversations, stumbling & repairing, getting 1% better daily, accepting responsibility

The single best advice I ever got on conversation is “ask questions the other person will enjoy answering” which sounds insultingly obvious, but almost nobody does it, and it instantly makes conversations vastly more fun.

The more you cling to certainty, the more identity rules your life.

Joy is infinitely more fulfilling than profit.

All of life is a conversation with God

When David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking

When you don’t trust yourself, you’re waiting to catch yourself in a mistake so you can pounce on your own certainty about how unworthy of trust you are. You get petty. You become fixated on your mistakes, and you keep a tally of those mistakes. In contrast, when you notice you’ve been numbing out all week beyond a level you’re comfortable with and

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“Any damn fool can put on a deal,

but it takes genius, faith, and perseverance

to create a brand.”

- David Ogilvy