“26 years ago today I was rejected by Pixar. I followed their advice and sent updated material when I increased my experience and education. A year later I was hired. 25 years later I directed a feature. Don’t give up.
#Pixar”
Detach yourself emotionally from fools. And while you're inwardly laughing at their foolishness, indulge them in one of their more harmless ideas.— Robert Greene (@RobertGreene) May 29, 2022
You can say what you like as long as you're funny. People are emotional. Doesn't really matter what you say, more so how they feel about it.— Illimitable Man Bot • Red Pill (@IllimitableBot) May 25, 2022
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."— Carl Jung— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) May 21, 2022
i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen pic.twitter.com/mz5auDBkKl— josh ackerman (@joshuaackerman) June 7, 2022
Nalden 在 Twitter: "Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities. — K-Hole, “Youth Mode”" / Twitter
Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities. — K-Hole, “Youth Mode”— Nalden (@Nalden) June 2, 2022
“@Shpigford So, so many options, and for people with any commercially relevant skill I think that is undershooting it.
I’d probably start by writing 3 essays on literally anything, putting a CTA at the bottom to join email list, and use the essays as buy-in to go on other peoples’ podcasts.”
I started dividing my to-do list into 1) things I have to do, 2) things I want to do, and 3) things other people want me to do. Life changing! I often don’t get to 3 and I finally realized omg, is this what it means to have boundaries?! 🤯🤯🤯— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) June 26, 2021
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”- Kurt Vonnegut (Player Piano)— Blake Robbins (@blakeir) May 9, 2022
“INTERVIEWER: Can you discern talent in someone?
JAMES BALDWIN: Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
The idea of doing "less" gets a lot of love.But the truth is, 99% of people should be doing way more.• Create 100 ads per day• Write 100 tweets per day • Send 50 cold DMs per day • Make 100 cold calls per dayIn the beginning, more volume will solve your problem.— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) May 5, 2022
Too often our impetus is "I need to use a new tool" instead of "how can I use the tools I'm already using to solve my problem"— David Vargas (@dvargas92495) April 4, 2022
“Question I can't stop thinking about from @tferriss's interview with @jerrycolonna:
How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don't want?
Hmmm.”