No one knows the right answer. I certainly don’t. I just know that I’m wise enough now to stop, think aloud, and as myself and others — is this what we really need to be doing now?
All this could happen and I wouldn’t necessarily barge through the apartment door and share that. It takes a nudge or a simple question from Nick for me to feel comfortable on a social level unleashing the 4 min story. “What's up,” “how’s it going,” “I had a weird day today, how ‘bout you?” is all that it takes. Just a simple prodding and boom, here comes the story. If he doesn't ask that because he’s busy coding, relaxing, or cooking, it won’t come up.
Here are the rules. The person in the center ring can say anything she wants to anyone, anywhere. She can kvetch and complain and whine and moan and curse the heavens and say, “Life is unfair” and “Why me?” That’s the one payoff for being in the center ring. Everyone else can say those things too, but only to people in larger rings.
While icebergs are obstacles that can be avoided to survive, rime is more deadly. The only way in which you can remove rime is to put in the work and chip away at the ice consistently over time.
In our personal lives, many of us let these types of emotions rule our choices. Think about how many times you and your friends have told a close friend to quit their job/get out of a relationship/stand up for themselves/do something else risky. Instead of following what everyone is saying, often people defy the advice of the people closest to them and trust their gut (whether it’s right or wrong is irrelevant). My friend Ryan is famous for saying “confident about the inputs” and that’s kind of all many of us have. Take your inputs, your external data points, and your internal thoughts, and iterate on your stances.
You realize relationships, non-relationships, and fun nights out are easiest when you’re brutally honest. You don’t quite know it yet, but you’ve established one of the pillars of your short life that honesty is indeed the best policy.
I am not convinced as Andy suggests that reading retention and note-taking are fundamental skills of knowledge work. What's more I have a suspicion that many knowledge workers over-rely on the act of collecting notes. Too much note taking is pernicious: it feels like doing something, while also giving you an excuse to endlessly delay putting forth your own thoughts until you have all the pieces. Rather than collecting and storing thoughts, the deliberate practice of knowledge, the expression of creativity that comes from play, necessitates sharing nascent and feeble ideas.
what if instead of spiraling and plotting an escape, I just took a breath, looked at the sky, and said Thank you to all the lives and choices that took me to where I am?
Have you ever found yourself highlighting an entire fluff-filled paragraph even though all you really wanted were the key sentences at the beginning and end? In this guide, we're going to learn how to cut fluff from your highlights on-the-fly using the concatenate action tag in Readwise. The concatenate action
Co-ops don’t motivate with the mirage of potential lottery-ticket growth. They fulfill our deeper need for resilience and reliability. It’s hard to imagine what could be more valuable during times like these.
To celebrate the release of our new mix compilation "Wake Your Mind Sessions 004" we are bringing you another New York City rooftop set. Click play and listen to the compilation highlights and some of our biggest tunes in the mix while the sun sets over New York City. Enjoy!
Listen, stream or download to "Wake Your Mind Sessions 004" - the compilation here: https://cosmicgate.complete.me/wyms004
Cosmic Gate WYMS004 Rooftop Set - Tracklisting
1.) Nihil Young & Less Hate – Loss (Extended Mix)
2.) All Living Things – Programme Music
3.) Matt Fax feat Ava Silver – The Wave (Extended Mix)
4.) Camelphat & Arbat feat Rhodes – For A Feeling
5.) Gardenstate – Delta
6.) Tinlicker feat Belle Doron – Close Your Eyes (Grum Extended Mix)
7.) Sandy Rivera & Rae – Hide U (Chicola Remix)
8.) Kolonie – Paradigm
9.) Grum feat Natalie Shay – Afterglow (Kryder Extdended Remix)
10.) Chicane – Saltwater (AVIRA Remix)
11.) Rolo Green – Kuat
12.) Cosmic Gate – Come With Me
13.) Cosmic Gate – Universal Love
14.) Greenhaven DJs – To Those Who Forgot
15.) Cosmic Gate – Your Mind
16.) Push – Universal Nation (Bart Skils Remix)
17.) Gabriel & Dresden - Only Road (Cosmic Gate Remix)
18.) Above & Beyond feat Richard Bedford – Bittersweet & Blue
(Above & Beyond Club Mix)
19.) Cosmic Gate – am2pm
20.) Patrick White – Flowing Dreams
21.) Cosmic Gate – Need To Feel Loved
22.) Daniel Wanrooy – Endless Universe
23.) Rank 1 – L.E.D. There Be Light (Cosmic Gate Remix)
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Things I got better at in 2016: Part 2 — Time and project management
I’ve begun to understand that I’m essentially a collection of “selves” that change subtly throughout the day, and I’ve learned to manage these “selves” as different workers—or like a great football coach who knows how to get each player to play to his full potential. OmniPlan makes it very easy to create task dependencies and realistically budget for weekends, holidays, and other planned time off. There is nothing better than taking time off and knowing your work is still on schedule when you get back. For longer projects, it’s also very motivating on a daily basis to see how staying on a preset schedule today translates to time savings weeks in the future. It also helps avoid the natural tendency to waste time until a fast approaching deadline forces urgency.
fans responded to most viscerally, perhaps, was the fact that it’s a book about becoming, both mentally and physically—about what it takes to shape a self, in all its completeness and disarray.
For reasons I’m sure my therapist could tell you, I wanted to be the kind of person worth celebrating, and didn’t realize that the only thing standing in the way was my own fear of taking up that space for myself.