When you make a business, you’re making a little world where you control the laws. It doesn’t matter how things are done everywhere else. In your little world, you can make it like it should be.
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? What questions do you ask yourself? Always these questions: Sleep? Exercise? Healthy food? Am I resentful because I’m not setting or holding a b...
When they’re told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves...
What you seek is seeking you.
What would this look like if it were easy? This could be anything. That morning, it was answering a laundry list of big questions. What would this look like if it were easy? is such a lovely and decep...
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.—Hal Boyle.
What is the opposite of happiness? Sadness? No.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficientl...
What are the kinds of key things that might be constraints on a solution, or might be the attributes of a solution, and what are tools or assets I might have? .
What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? Great, great question. In the world of writing, everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Really?...
What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the real world? What advice should they ignore? [My advice:] Pursue every project, idea, or industry that genuinely lights...
What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the real world? What advice should they ignore? I’m probably hopelessly out of date but my advice is get real-world experie...
What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the real world? What advice should they ignore? Advice I’d give: Make sure you have something every day you’re looking forw...
What I’m finding is that microdoses of LSD or mushrooms may be very helpful for depression because they make you feel better enough that you do something about what’s wrong with your life. We’ve made...
What Does It Feel Like? If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. —Lao Tzu
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WHY EXERCISE IS IMPORTANT TO STAN Aside from the self-image and performance aspects: It also puts discipline in the day. I find that if the day is terrible, but I worked out, at the end of the day I’l...
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I
Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.
Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do. That phone call, that conversation, whatever the action might be—it is fear of unknown outcomes that prevents us from doing what we need to...