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“It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you’re walking, you may think you’re running a damn marathon, but you’re only on a... See more
Designed by Tina Roth Eisenberg (swiss-miss.com) and built by John Ford (johnford.is) • quotes – swissmiss
There is a filmmaker that worked for Pixar that put this beautifully, and he used the metaphor of doing anything difficult, but for your high purposes of building a company. He says, "If you're sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing?" You have to embrace that sailing means that you... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else.
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
he thought about it and said he didn’t think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it. He said it’s that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
In an interview, the professional rock climber Alex Honnold was given a piece of paper and asked to draw the trajectory of his career. This is what he drew:
Beginning at the age of 18 when he was living out of a van and climbing all over the Western U.S., for ten to eleven years, “it was kind of like nothing,” Honnold said, drawing a flat line along... See more
Beginning at the age of 18 when he was living out of a van and climbing all over the Western U.S., for ten to eleven years, “it was kind of like nothing,” Honnold said, drawing a flat line along... See more
Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Rilke’s Swan, the Antidote to Exhaustion, an Incognito Musician, a Career-Defining Realization, a Really Fundamental Idea, and Different People in Different Situations
You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.