“The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave.” — Evgeny Morozov
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
Gratitude Comes from Noticing Your Life, Not Thinking About It
“Gratitude, when we do genuinely feel it, arises from experiences we are currently having, not from evaluating our lives in our heads.”
How to Figure out What You Want
“Every time I gave my attention to anything besides myself, I was actually telling myself, ‘This random thought is more important than you are.’”
10 Hidden Gmail Productivity Hacks
“If you find yourself typing certain replies or phrases over and over, then you would benefit from Gmail’s Canned Responses feature. This lets you create saved responses that you can later access, keeping you from having to retype the text.”
The Secret to Success According to Gary Vaynerchuk
“You know zero people that have built something big that haven’t put in a ridiculous amount of work. And the bigger it is, the more they worked.”
How to Create a Reverse Budget
“Reverse budgeting simply figures out how much you need to save, makes those savings automatic and then you spend the remaining amount of money as you please.”
Change How You’re Paid and You’ll Change Your Life
“Regardless of how much you’re paid, how and why you get paid dictates your lifestyle.”
Nine Scientists Share Their Favorite Happiness Practices
“We become so obsessed with accumulating that we forget about enjoying. It’s often on my mind, as I think about what is worth accumulating in life — and what is not.”
You Have to Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
“Comfort is overrated. Because being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they’ve been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo. So we’ve got to get comfortable with being uncomfortable by speaking these hard truths when they’re necessary.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.” — Penn Jillette