things to ponder
All the grit, persistence, and motivation in the world won’t do you any good if you’re working on the wrong thing. In fact, it will do the opposite.
Choosing what to pursue is more important than choosing how to pursue it. Make sure you’re facing the right direction before you start running.
Choosing what to pursue is more important than choosing how to pursue it. Make sure you’re facing the right direction before you start running.
Mark Manson • Are You Ruining Your Life? | Your Next Breakthrough
“The strategy required to find a great opportunity (lots of saying yes and exploring widely) is different from the strategy required to make the most of a great opportunity (lots of saying no and remaining focused).”
Everyone arrives at knowledge of the world from a personal point of view and is not the poorer for it. Each person understands life on the basis of small personal events. Firsthand experience is what matters. It is by being grounded in what we know and what we have experienced that we can move out into greater complexities.
Teju Cole • Tremor: A Novel
The Imperfectionist: What would it mean to be done for the day?
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“To experience time travel, read.
To achieve immortality, write.”
To achieve immortality, write.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: How to time travel, the power of reading, and being grateful when you don't have what you want
“The best way to think is to write.”
Farnam Street • Happy Accidents
BRIAN ENO
So what you see when you watch someone surfing is they take control momentarily, to situate themselves on a wave, and then they surrender. They’re carried along by it, and then they take control again, and then they surrender. I think that’s a very good analogy of what we do throughout our lives, actually. We’re constantly moving between t... See more
So what you see when you watch someone surfing is they take control momentarily, to situate themselves on a wave, and then they surrender. They’re carried along by it, and then they take control again, and then they surrender. I think that’s a very good analogy of what we do throughout our lives, actually. We’re constantly moving between t... See more
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Farnam Street • Leave Your Crown in the Garage
What if the answer to improving your life isn’t to do more? What if the answer is to focus on less?