Sharon Lee
@tlsharon
Sharon Lee
- The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonate with, and if we’re lucky, some part of the world might too.
Interesting analogy for creating conditions for 10x work:
Limit drag. Reduce interruptions by working in extended periods of focus work.
Maximize thrust. Fill focus time with primarily long-duration tasks.
The reasoning is that the work that is highest impact typically takes a lot of reasoning / requires a lot of implementation detail. Minimizing dist
... See morenote · by muizz on Thrust, Drag and the 10x Effect
- There are three things you cannot buy. Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not. Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you. I think that diet is the biggest sacrifice in my life. Then, looking after your soul. No one can possibly treat your soul but you yourself. This is something you can do through culture and philosoph... See more
from Brunello Cucinelli by om.co
“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness m
... See morefrom Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- “If you knew better, you’d do better.”
from WePresent | Cosmically Speaking: An essay by Holly Murchison
Not knowing what you want to do with your life—or not at least having some ideas about what to do next—is a defense against that terror. It is a reluctance to admit that the possibilities are not endless. It is a way of pretending there is nothing you can do to improve your situation. It is a resistance against accepting that there are no right ans
... See morefrom The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay
I felt a lot of internal pressure to figure it out, but all the thinking I did was really debilitating and unproductive. The one thing I have learned is that you can’t think your way through life. The only way to figure out what to do is to do—something.
from The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay
You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.
from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid