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- Every clear directive you issue is a gift because it relievesyour staff of the stress of having to divine your goals. A cleardirective is an indication of trust: your way of saying "I havetaken the time and effort to figure out our goal. I nowacknowledge that you have the knowledge and resources to figureout the process."
from 11 laws of showrunning by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
from 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy. -Nightbirde
Thoughts I Return To and happiness
You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy. -NightbirdeWhat we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If you are looking for a friend in a crowd, faces become salient to you, faces that would have otherwise passed you by. If you are making videos, you will notice patterns in the videos you watch. If you’re not, you can watch a thousand videos and have them pass through your head clean
... See morefrom How MrBeast Learns by Henrik Karlsson
- “See enough and write it down, I tell myself. And then some morning, when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I’m going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do... On that bankrupt morning, I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest. Paid passage back to the world... See more
from quotes – Page 3 – swissmiss by Tina Roth Eisenberg
2024 Commencement Address by Roger Federer at Dartmouth
1 Effortless is a myth
2 Belief in yourself has to be earned
3 Grit > Gift
4 Discipline is talent
5 Trust and loving the process is talent
6 You can do your best and still lose
7 Life is bigger than the court
Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you write the first draft, don’t let the judgy editor get near. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.
from Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist by Kevin Kelly
- Nowadays, there are four things that are gonna decide if I have a good day. Did I sleep enough? Did I connect deeply with people I love? Did I get some time to myself? Did I make choices for my body that felt good—like, did I take a good walk, did I eat healthy, did I exercise? If I get those four things in place, usually my days are pretty good.
from Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things by gq.com
- Instead of telling people what I think of a proposal, a product, a feature, whatever, I ask them instead what they think. Were they thrilled with it? Absolutely love it? Most of the time I would hear, “It's okay,” or “It's not bad.” They would surmise from my facial expression that this wasn't the answer I was looking for. Come back when you are bu... See more
from Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman