“If all you want to do is be someone who started a business or finished a creative project, that’s going to be bad for you. You can’t go into business thinking you want to be an entrepreneur. You have to go into it thinking that you want to build something.”
This is a short post, but it expresses an important concept.
“Our version of the 30 best, or at least different, episodes that might take you on a journey across time, space, consciousness, and your own life.”
It’s unlikely these are actually the greatest podcast episodes of all time since that’s a subjective topic, but this is still a great place to start.
“The skill to get hot without getting mad — to have a good argument that doesn’t become personal — is critical in life. But it’s one that few parents teach to their children. We want to give kids a stable home, so we stop siblings from quarreling and we have our own arguments behind closed doors. Yet if kids never get exposed to disagreement, we’ll end up limiting their creativity.”
Creativity rarely comes from people who always get along with each other — it’s often birthed from tension between opposing ideas.
“Even if your primary source of income is not writing, becoming a good writer can lead you to success in any area.”
Being a good writer is as much about differentiating yourself as it is knowing where to put the proper punctuation.
This post can help you figure out how to do that.
“I love Mozart and I would have loved him to be my teacher. But I think I would prefer to be the first Alma than to be the second Mozart.”
She played piano and violin at three-years-old and wrote her first opera by the time she was ten.
“All storytelling begins with deciding what kind of relationship you want to have with your audience.”
There are a lot of reasons people struggle to create compelling content, but one of the biggest may be they misunderstand what content is meant to do in the first place.
“You don’t have to change what you want just because someone else wants something different. All you have to do is clarify — with grace and firmness — that your goals are different. And they’ll get it.”
Saying no doesn’t have to be as hard as it seems and it’s likely many of the people you say no to will actually thank you for it if you approach it in the right way.
“The desk, the computer on top of it, the chair you sit in, and the space they comprise are all repositories for memory. But these things don’t just store our memories; they store our behaviors too. The sum of these stored behaviors is an object’s habit field, and merely being around it compels our bodies and minds to act in certain ways.”
Here’s a take on memory, productivity, behavior and habits I’ve never heard before.
“If you only read the stuff that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
This one doesn’t need much of a description.
“Connectivity enables transparency.” — Bill Gates