unoptimal
- the real competitive advantage in life is internal approval. you cannot compete with someone who is secure with who they are, what they want, and what they bring
- I don’t like living alone. This insight brought to you by my brother, who is visiting me and currently laying on my living room floor laughing at something at his phone. I feel warm and calm and deeply okay.
- you are serving no one minimizing your accomplishments. high effort and resiliency is attractive and hot! nonchalance and passion are incompatible MAKE YOURSELF BIG. Bigger than you ever have before. So big you block the sun and the stars fear you 🌑
- You can’t optimize your way toward feeling alive. Efficiency is a tool to enable life; it is not a life.
- Have you tried doing what you're currently doing, but like you actually wanted it to succeed?
- Example I: "Duncan Sabien is a teacher and a writer."
This is a true sentence. People who know me very, very well, upon hearing this sentence, will nod. It's a good fit, retrospectively, for the data.
However, if you are attempting to give someone a sense of me up-front, saying "Duncan Sabien is a teacher and a writer" is an unusually ba
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Together, we realized that there is a curious one-way sort of property to many sentences, in which they work as pointers or summaries after the fact, but fail to generate the-thing-
they're-summarizing if used as standalone seeds.
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- When the studio owner heard I was going to Berklee, he said, “I graduated from Berklee and taught there, too. I’ll bet I can teach you two years of theory and arranging in only a few lessons. I suspect you can graduate in two years if you understand there’s no speed limit. Come by my studio at 9:00 tomorrow for your first lesson, if you’re interest... See more
from There’s No Speed Limit by Derek Sivers
- Society has spent a lot of time conditioning us to think of the tryers as better than the slackers. Being a tryer is a virtue. Slackers are missing the point of education; why are they even there? The tryers are going to go places, the slackers will never amount to anything.
But in fact, both groups are doing it wrong.
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