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If you’ve lived in the same house for 500 years you don’t need to wear blingy clothes. Footballers’ wives do that because they are more socially anxious and also the geographic mobility thing.
In your home village everybody knows who the hell you are and where the hell you live, so it’s pretty senseless getting into all those sort of bling competitions.
In the big cities where nobody knows who you are, there is a value to status indicators that are portable.
There’s interesting research on this showing that actually the need for luxury goods is very much one that comes with social and geographic mobility. It’s not irrational because this is a Darwinian thing.
The urge not to be patronised or belittled is a pretty strong innate human urge. Women’s fashion is a slightly nasty area. I’d have more ethical concerns in some ways about working in some areas of women’s fashion than on working on tobacco or booze.
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In your home village everybody knows who the hell you are and where the hell you live, so it’s pretty senseless getting into all those sort of bling competitions.
In the big cities where nobody knows who you are, there is a value to status indicators that are portable.
There’s interesting research on this showing that actually the need for luxury goods is very much one that comes with social and geographic mobility. It’s not irrational because this is a Darwinian thing.
The urge not to be patronised or belittled is a pretty strong innate human urge. Women’s fashion is a slightly nasty area. I’d have more ethical concerns in some ways about working in some areas of women’s fashion than on working on tobacco or booze.
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“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”
-Sarah Manguso
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-Sarah Manguso
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Quotes about Creativity1.
This is a book about how to be the author of the change you seek. - Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways by Sarah Stein Greenberg2.
Diverse teams outperform homogenous ones by 30 percent. - Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed3.
Creativity, in its most fundamental sense, is problem-solving. - Design Your Thinking: Creative Strategies for Problem Solving by Pavan Soni4.
Constraints can actually be liberating. - You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation by Sarah Urist Green5.
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. - The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield6.
I walk into the studio at roughly the same time every day. - The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp7.
Creativity is an experience—not a product. - The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron8.
Each chapter provides valuable lessons and strategies for creating your own success. - The Entrepreneurial Artist: Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives by Aaron Dworkin9.
The studio should be a place of solace and inspiration. - Life in the Studio: Inspiration and Lessons on Creativity by Frances Palmer10.
Mind wandering can lead to greater creativity and problem-solving abilities. - Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity by Jonathan Schooler and Jonathan Smallwood== @Audiobooks_collection
The person that is well rested might be able to work 16 hour days 6 days per week. The person who never works but scrolls TikTok all day can struggle to do 30 minutes of work without burning out.
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“In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering.
In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don’t have much time? Scale it down. Don’t have much energy? Do the easy version. Find different ways to show up depending on the circumstances. Let your habits change shape to meet the demands of the day.
Adaptability is the way of consistency.”
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In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don’t have much time? Scale it down. Don’t have much energy? Do the easy version. Find different ways to show up depending on the circumstances. Let your habits change shape to meet the demands of the day.
Adaptability is the way of consistency.”
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*Operationalize things/words*
These definitions and defining these words and boiling them down to the most basic version is simply amazing...helps a lot.
1)
Patience is just finding something enjoyable to do in the meantime.
2)
Sadness is perceived lack of options/options - which is ignorance problem - so Knowledge is the answer.. learning
3)
Anxiety is the opposite - which is having too many options - priority problem - taking Descisions is the answer.
4)Strategy is just prioritzing
5)Effort are the things you must begin doing that you do not want to do.
6)Sacrifice is the opp. Things that you stop doing that you want to do.
7) Learning is same condition new behaviour.
8)
Speed is not doing things fast.
Speed is not getting distracted by the other shit that doesn't matter.
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These definitions and defining these words and boiling them down to the most basic version is simply amazing...helps a lot.
1)
Patience is just finding something enjoyable to do in the meantime.
2)
Sadness is perceived lack of options/options - which is ignorance problem - so Knowledge is the answer.. learning
3)
Anxiety is the opposite - which is having too many options - priority problem - taking Descisions is the answer.
4)Strategy is just prioritzing
5)Effort are the things you must begin doing that you do not want to do.
6)Sacrifice is the opp. Things that you stop doing that you want to do.
7) Learning is same condition new behaviour.
8)
Speed is not doing things fast.
Speed is not getting distracted by the other shit that doesn't matter.
@Audiobooks_collection
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The car ran over Chica. My son screamed. In that brief moment everything that Max had worked for, everything he had overcome, everything that he was living for, was gone.
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The car ran over Chica. My son screamed. In that brief moment everything that Max had worked for, everything he had overcome, everything that he was living for, was gone.
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“Learn Like An Athlete” is the name of a blog post by my friend - david perell
Even though it wasn’t the purpose of the post, it gave me an idea.
“Think Like An Athlete” came into my mind.
Not many people treat their chosen pursuit like an athlete.
When you think about how a sportsperson behaves, everything in their life is geared toward maximising their performance on game day.
Everything.
From their nutrition to their sleeping pattern, the game tape they watch, the drills they run, the conditioning work, their self-talk, the people they hang around with, their recovery, their pre-game ritual, even the content they consume.
Everything contributes to their performance.
And yet when you ask people what they want to do in life, unless it’s a sport pretty much no one takes their preparation this seriously.
“I want to be a world-class podcaster.”
Ok so tell me what you did on the morning of your episode recording.
“Oh well I got up late cos I didn’t get in from the cinema until 1am and scrolled through Instagram for an hour when I woke up-“
Hang on a second.
I thought you wanted to be the best at this?
Why is it that you don’t treat your chosen pursuit with the same level of finesse and sacredness that athletes treat theirs?
This thing is THE thing you said you wanted to do.
Your highest calling.
Your maximal point of contribution to the world.
But you’re leaving so much on the table.
Why is that?
I think the reason is because the parameters for success and failure in pretty much everything except for sport are so messy and hard to define that we always believe we can just “get by” and no one will notice, not even ourselves.
In sport you have very tight metrics of success and failure.
You know how fast you ran/heavy you lifted/accurately you threw in the last match, so you have a benchmark for this one.
You also know where you were at in training and can predict what should have happened on game day.
These tight, objective metrics of success and failure aren’t there in pretty much anything else.
Who’s to say that this podcast/YouTube video/music performance/day with your children was better or worse than the last one?
What even constitutes a good performance here?
The subjectivity and inherent opaqueness of most pursuits provides sufficient degrees of freedom for you to believe you can just “get by” with poor preparation.
And it’s difficult to draw a direct line from you being a worse podcaster/YouTuber/musician/father to the sleep/nutrition/mindset/training you did.
So we don’t concern ourselves with it.
Where could you be in life if you treated your chosen pursuit in life with the same level of dedication that athletes treat theirs?
You’re only getting one shot at this.
Maybe taking it more seriously would be a good idea.
- Chris Williamson
@TheBestTwitterThreads
Even though it wasn’t the purpose of the post, it gave me an idea.
“Think Like An Athlete” came into my mind.
Not many people treat their chosen pursuit like an athlete.
When you think about how a sportsperson behaves, everything in their life is geared toward maximising their performance on game day.
Everything.
From their nutrition to their sleeping pattern, the game tape they watch, the drills they run, the conditioning work, their self-talk, the people they hang around with, their recovery, their pre-game ritual, even the content they consume.
Everything contributes to their performance.
And yet when you ask people what they want to do in life, unless it’s a sport pretty much no one takes their preparation this seriously.
“I want to be a world-class podcaster.”
Ok so tell me what you did on the morning of your episode recording.
“Oh well I got up late cos I didn’t get in from the cinema until 1am and scrolled through Instagram for an hour when I woke up-“
Hang on a second.
I thought you wanted to be the best at this?
Why is it that you don’t treat your chosen pursuit with the same level of finesse and sacredness that athletes treat theirs?
This thing is THE thing you said you wanted to do.
Your highest calling.
Your maximal point of contribution to the world.
But you’re leaving so much on the table.
Why is that?
I think the reason is because the parameters for success and failure in pretty much everything except for sport are so messy and hard to define that we always believe we can just “get by” and no one will notice, not even ourselves.
In sport you have very tight metrics of success and failure.
You know how fast you ran/heavy you lifted/accurately you threw in the last match, so you have a benchmark for this one.
You also know where you were at in training and can predict what should have happened on game day.
These tight, objective metrics of success and failure aren’t there in pretty much anything else.
Who’s to say that this podcast/YouTube video/music performance/day with your children was better or worse than the last one?
What even constitutes a good performance here?
The subjectivity and inherent opaqueness of most pursuits provides sufficient degrees of freedom for you to believe you can just “get by” with poor preparation.
And it’s difficult to draw a direct line from you being a worse podcaster/YouTuber/musician/father to the sleep/nutrition/mindset/training you did.
So we don’t concern ourselves with it.
Where could you be in life if you treated your chosen pursuit in life with the same level of dedication that athletes treat theirs?
You’re only getting one shot at this.
Maybe taking it more seriously would be a good idea.
- Chris Williamson
@TheBestTwitterThreads
If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.
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Jump into the colder pool. Walk instead of drive. Pick up the book instead of your phone. Take responsibility instead of hoping it goes unnoticed. In matters big and small, courage is choosing the more difficult option.
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“People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’”
~ DYLAN MORAN
✨ The self-imposed limitations of others can only bleed into your reality with your permission. Protect your energy and be radical with what you consume / who you spend your time with.
✨ You are the main character of your life and to some extent no one / nothing else exists in the way they may seem to for life is entirely a reflection of the happenings in your mind. Every interaction, situation, and obstacle is happening FOR you not TO you. It’s imperative you start looking through that lens as the way you perceive dictates how you speak which will then determine how you act.
✨ Every day is a new opportunity;
a fresh start to take back control of your life.
I know
deep within
you KNOW
you are capable
of so much.
So I feel just how much pain it causes you
to see that potential slowly slip away.
Time waits for no one.
WE ASCEND AS ONE 🕊️
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~ DYLAN MORAN
✨ The self-imposed limitations of others can only bleed into your reality with your permission. Protect your energy and be radical with what you consume / who you spend your time with.
✨ You are the main character of your life and to some extent no one / nothing else exists in the way they may seem to for life is entirely a reflection of the happenings in your mind. Every interaction, situation, and obstacle is happening FOR you not TO you. It’s imperative you start looking through that lens as the way you perceive dictates how you speak which will then determine how you act.
✨ Every day is a new opportunity;
a fresh start to take back control of your life.
I know
deep within
you KNOW
you are capable
of so much.
So I feel just how much pain it causes you
to see that potential slowly slip away.
Time waits for no one.
WE ASCEND AS ONE 🕊️
@Audiobooks_collection