“In an age of network tools… knowledge workers increasingly replace deep work with the shallow alternative—constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction. Larger efforts that would be well served by deep thinking, such as forming a new business strategy or writing an important grant…
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers Don’t look now, but we’re approaching the last month of the year. What has this year taught us? That we’re more…
“It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.” — Simone Weil The quote above is making the rounds on Twitter again, stirred up first by Maria Popova and recently by Tim Ferriss. When the student is ready the teacher will appear, it is said, and whatever…
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers A great humorist will kick you in the ass while they make you laugh. You could fill a blog with Will Rogers…
“I think you should always do shit that scares you. You just always have to do stuff that scares you. Just wander right off into the water right up to where just your nostrils are out of it. And then just try and live there.” – Brandi Carlile, on The Howard Stern Show How deep…
Sacrifice the things you used to believe, and the ways you used to be. Learning leaves a trail of little deaths.– Derek Sivers, How To Live The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. – John Ruskin We all transform into something different….
Don’t accept the false stories people tell. Things are neither good nor bad — they’re as neutral as a rock. When people give opinions, add a question mark. If they say, “Immigration is bad,” change it to, “Immigration is bad?” Let the questions drift away, unanswered.– Derek Sivers, How To Live There’s a hidden message…
“A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again—and he said, “A mouse will do.” – Kahlil Gibran, The Fox Walking on a beach at sunset earlier this week,…
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius There’s something about an extended vacation that makes you hyper-aware of the world you return to. You gain new perspective on the world, you break free of the stories you’ve been telling yourself, the…
“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful—while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with—he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but…
