“I have found the Extremely Annoying Surrender Exercise to be powerful:
Assume everything that is happening is supposed to be happening, as if it were chosen by your future self, including your resistance to the Extremely Annoying Surrender Exercise.”
“…one of the worst misconceptions in product design is that a microwave needs to have a button for every thing you could possibly cook: ‘popcorn,’ ‘chicken,’ ‘potato,’ ‘frozen vegetable,’ bla bla bla.
You really don’t! You can just have a time (and power) button. People will figure out how to cook stuff.”
“Photography is writing with light…”
“To be a better photographer, you must shoot with the understanding that now is the only time you have. And then you must do this over and over and over until you die.”
“What differentiates masochism from healthy effort is whether something meaningful is on the other side. If you manage to figure that out, and you are in touch with what you really want, learning how to recognize and push through the wince can help you create better patterns.”
“It’s a North Star—what you’re avoiding can tell you exactly where you should go.”
“If a dream follows you around for years and years, even if when you try to bat it away, there’s probably something there.”
“You will learn much more about yourself and the world around you by doing things than by trying to be someone. Watch as the shape and edges of your preferences for life emerge through experience — this is the opposite of lostness.”
“Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
