Thought provoking

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

​— John Wooden

This is my secret:

I don't mind what happens."

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

3-2-1: How to be great, the power of cold emails, and the dangers of working late

read on JamesClear.com | May 23, 2024

Happy 3-2-1 Thursday!

Quick announcement: We are having a Memorial Day Sale on our popular Atomic Habits engraved pens.

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Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.”

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“Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.” This is borrowed from the wise and wonderful Debbie Millman, for it’s hard to better capture something so fundamental yet so impatiently overlooked in our culture of immediacy. The myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — as well as a reminder that our present definition of success need... See more

What we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire, but by what bad feelings we’re willing and able to sustain to get us to those good feelings

This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes. So, my friend, choose your struggles wisely.

You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.

The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”

— Louis Pasteur