“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
Dostoevsky
Is it weird to zap myself to see if the plumbing still works?
What is the nostr killer app for musicians?
Is that not true about most things?
The introvert is afraid everyone is talking about them. The extrovert is afraid nobody is talking about them. nostr:note1efxnn2sk6ps9pqulv32y6jmtvxy8rac90xnevcvajydqf3chwwns47a5ll
"At Vogue, she learned the tight, functional economy of public prose. Her editor, Allene Talmey, would assign her to write a story in three hundred words, then, when she was finished, tell her to pare it down to fifty. 'We wrote long and published short and by doing that Joan learned to write,' Talmey told the New York Times. ... 'It was at Vogue that I learned a kind of ease with words, a way of regarding words not as mirrors of my own inadequacy but as tools, toys, weapons to be deployed strategically on a page.'"
George Leonard on how mastery is nothing but a series of plateaus with brief spurts of progress:
“The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend most of your time on a plateau. That’s where the deepest, most lasting learning takes place, so you might as well enjoy it. When I was first learning…I just assumed that I would steadily improve. My first plateau was something of a shock and disappointment, but I persevered and finally experienced an apparent spurt of learning. The next time my outward progress stopped, I said to myself ‘oh damn, another plateau’. After a few months, there was another spurt of progress and then, of course, the inevitable plateau. This time, something marvellous happened. I found myself thinking ‘Oh boy, another plateau. Good, if I stay on it and keep practicing, I’m absolutely assured another surge of progress. It was one of the best and warmest moments of my life.’"
Slowly then suddenly.
“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
Abraham Lincoln on haters
“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”
Charlie Munger on avoiding stupidity
Look closely at the things that bring inaction, and embrace the fear that brings action. nostr:note1f7u25p6hqxmwvtd9e8nhtccf5d23zheztylduuacwvsqlx24mejq3sf9mw
When you think something's impossible, consider this: people who achieve extraordinary things are willing to endure what others won't.
Take SpaceX. In 2002, most experts said private companies couldn't build orbital rockets. Musk accepted years of failure and ridicule that others wouldn't.
What you call impossible is often just pain you're unwilling to endure.
Focused people eliminate options, not accumulate them.
Warren Buffett exemplifies this - he's made his fortune by carefully selecting a few investments and sticking with them for decades, ignoring thousands of other opportunities.
Without a focus, everything becomes a distraction.
Say more by saying less. nostr:note1vszszakqk7uqmcrvsgpfqd74432vstfwuptcp3l0fsnmc5yjw66st7egy2
Intensity is common, consistency is rare.
I’d like to think “amor fati” is about more than just loving your fate, I think it’s more having a dialogue with triumph and disaster and turning it upside down and flipping it ever which way to see what the universe is really trying to tell you. It’s never what you think and always ends up surprising you in fashions of comedy or tragedy or anywhere in between.
“You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.”
Bob Dylan
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
Bob Dylan
DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.
Bob Dylan