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Tattoo this to your brain:
"The world is a malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”
-- marc andreessen
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We kid ourselves that our degrees make us smarter than trades people. There’s a team framing a house near me with multiple gables and roof intersections. These guys are geniuses in their ability to see the geometry of a complex space and manifest it in the physical universe.
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Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.
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Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
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You must know your field inside and out, and yet be able to question its most entrenched assumptions.
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So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
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There is nothing worth doing that is not scary. There is no one who has achieved greatness without wrestling with their own doubts, anxieties, limitations, and demons.
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Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, and experiencing the power this brings.
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One big mistake people repeatedly make is focusing on proving themselves right instead of focusing on achieving the best outcome. These people care more about getting credit than creating great work.
Give up the desire for credit. Focus on creating the best outcome.
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There’s a common misconception that once you find your calling, life will get easier. It’s the opposite—your purpose or your life’s calling probably has more struggles than a comfortable 9-5. The question is never “am I in a storm”, it’s “do I have hope and grit on my boat.”
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
Lao Tzu
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If you have all the information you need to make a perfect decision, you missed the opportunity.
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Most poets aren't sages or prophets. Most of us are just average folks, working long hours to pay the rent, writing between shifts, groceries, laundry, bad weather, appointments, and sheer exhaustion, yet still trying to give back to the world with precise words.
ALT American labour organiser, feminist and socialist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. She played a leading role in the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union. She was also a fierce poet. Born today August 7 in 1890.
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Some People: America has gone soft.
Me: That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Some People: That's why we need to ban books.
Me: Wait I have heard a new dumbest thing.
My husband and I's first date was at an art museum and it was long and fun and wonderful for this reason. 😍
Just heard someone say that museums are great for first dates because you get to ask what they think of an artwork, and that tells you more about them than “what are your hobbies, etc.” People reveal the most about themselves through reactions, not introspective descriptions.
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