Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
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To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion.
James P. Carse
To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.
The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It’s how well you synthesize.
Adam Grant
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Looking Back Everything’s Different
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
C.S. Lewis
So we should allow ourselves some time to grow into some of the ideas that we intuitively know are beautiful or important in some way but we can’t intellectually express yet.
Vicky Zhao
An ode to taking notes in Obsidian
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Stepping Out of Our Way
You have to let the idea of yourself get out of the way of yourself.
Ayishat Akanbi
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Dying To Live
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Charles Bukowski
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Work and Play Are the Same Thing
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain
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Getting Out of the Way
When we’re our best selves with each other, I don’t think that’s what’s possible between people. I believe that’s what’s true between people.
Brené Brown
And I don’t think we have to work to make it true between people. I think we just have to get the stuff out of the way that’s stopping it from happening.
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Finding The Seed of Your Work
One way to find the seed is to ask yourself this question: “What is the real meaning of my work?”
Dan Oestreich