“All of us have special ones who loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are, those who cared about you and wanted what was best for you in life.”
“We think that rational decision-making means exhaustively enumerating our options, weighing each carefully, and then selecting the best. In practice, when the clock — or the ticker — is ticking, few aspects of decision-making, or of thinking more generally, are so important as one: when to stop.”
“Action addiction is an advanced sort of laziness. It keeps us busily occupied with tasks. The busier we keep ourselves, the more we avoid being confronted with questions of life and death.”
“Some people have a lot of fear about publishing often because they think it will make readers sick of their work. But I think the only way that can happen is if you write about issues you don’t genuinely care about, or if your writing never gets better. And perhaps, if you’re never vulnerable.”
“PKM is a systems approach to dealing with the firehose of fragmented information that bombards our headspace daily. Processes that help to efficiently gather, classify, store, search, and retrieve information that supports work activities and creative knowledge work (idea generation, insights, breakthroughs, big ideas, etc.).”
“I don’t believe that true creativeness comes out of misery and insanity.”
“Everything we have today that’s cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past.” — Patton Oswalt
Dear Overwhelmed,
I feel your pain.
We live in a stressful, pressure-packed, anxious time in which everything is judged and little ever seems to be enough for ourselves or others.
But there’s an antidote you can give yourself tomorrow.
“The promises that we make and we keep and those we choose to dishonor…that is what defines us and our character.”
“You should be making work that you enjoy, that you need, that you want to hold in your hands or use.”