“A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry.” — Chuck Jones
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
Bored With Your Life? Do This.
Sometimes, life gets boring.
When that happens, we turn to blog posts to tell us what to do about it.
(That may not be what typically happens, but you’re here reading this now, so let’s just go with it!)
Here are nine things to do when you feel stuck in a rut.
How To Photograph Your Vacation
“Look for ways to isolate people who are emblematic of the place you are in. You’ll capture more of the essence of where you are through that one image of that one person than you will with a hundred random shots of strangers intermixed with others.”
Why You Should Start Your Next Brainstorm With An Embarrassing Story
“Candor led to greater creativity. Thus, we propose a new rule for brainstorming sessions: Tell a self-deprecating story before you start.”
Your Life Is A Reflection Of What You Think You Deserve
“The first step, then, to using your time in the best possible way, is to elevate what you believe you deserve. If you don’t believe you deserve to spend your time on amazing things, you’ll continually sabotage yourself. You’ll continue to act in ways to PROVE TO YOURSELF you aren’t worth more. You’ll try to keep yourself small.”
How To Stop Working So Much (And What I Learned From Doing So)
We know when we work too much—we just don’t know what to do about it.
Whether we love or hate our job, it’s easy to become consumed by it and destroy our work-life balance in the process.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
What Happens To An Astronaut When They Come Back From Space
“I use the bathroom and shuffle back to bed, wondering what I should do. Normally if I woke up feeling like this, I would go to the emergency room. But no one at the hospital will have seen symptoms of having been in space for a year.”
Read This Before You Quit Your Job
“There are ways to work at a job you don’t like without complaining every day. Try and seek the advantages and the lessons you can learn.”
To Raise An Empowered Girl, Encourage Her To Be Funny
“One of the things that happens to girls is that they are encroached upon by the world. And one of the things that humor can do is…help girls stand up for themselves in ways that people don’t retaliate for.”
How The Shift From Search To Social Changed More Than Just The Internet
“You no longer enter the Internet the way you would a public library, where you browse and pick out what you want to read in peace, it’s more like the Las Vegas strip, where you’re bombarded with demands for your attention and need not exert any effort to be entertained.”