On becoming
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On becoming
If you want a recipe for unhappiness, spend your time accumulating a lot of money and let your health and relationships deteriorate.
James Clear • 3-2-1: A recipe for unhappiness, the most valuable items in my home, and managing limiting beliefs
From James Clear's 3-2-1: Why small things matter, reframing failure, and how to cherish life
"Life rewards action, not intelligence.
Many brilliant people talk themselves out of getting started, and being smart doesn't help very much without the courage to act.
You can't win if you're not in the game."
Creativity is born of limitations, not freedom
Kieran O‘Hare • Following the ‘White-hot Fire Inside of You’
What you do with your talents matters. Take the time to make sure you’re working on the right thing.
Daniel McCormick • Weekly Dose of Optimism #89
Egonomics is the idea that "within each individual exists two selves: the past or future self and the present self, constantly at odds, leading to a sort of cognitive dissonance between the two. Both selves exist within us and are equally valid, but aren’t always active at the same time. It’s a natural and ongoing conflict between immediate desire ... See more
Egonomics
This Maria Popova quote stopped me in my tracks:
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but n... See more
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but n... See more
But maybe this makes it easier—knowing that you will be nauseated and lost when you try to do anything in life other than stay on an understandable, legible, unobjectionable trajectory. Sometimes this is called safety. But it’s really not safe. It’s just steady-state. People with safe jobs get cancer and get fired all the time. Often, taking the ‘s... See more
Sasha Chapin • The Moat of Low Status
Be kind, even if you are right
Try softer, not harder, to change someone's mind.
Try softer, not harder, to change someone's mind.
sari azout • Principles for Sharing on the Internet
radical agency involves finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying, unpleasant, or obscured in a cloud of aversion.