Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years. Today’s dose of wisdom « Getting Things Done in Academia (See also: Teach a man to light a match, he warms himself for a day. Set …
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Go Where Your Characters Lead You
Trollope said, “On the last day of each month recorded, every person in a work of fiction should be a month older than on the first.” We go with our characters wherever they lead us, and as time makes its mark on us, so it must on them. HALLIE BURNETT Go Where Your Characters Lead …
A Cascade of New Insights
“Innis’s technique, like McLuhan’s, forswears the building up of a convincing argument, or any attempt at ‘proof,’ instead gathering in a ton of disparate ideas from different disciplines that might seem irreconcilable at first; yet considering them together results in a shifted perspective, and a cascade of new insights.” — Maria Bustillos, “Wikipedia and the …
If you acknowledge all this resistance and act on your plan anyway, you will make one of the most liberating discoveries possible for a human being—that you can take constructive action in any moment no matter what you feel, and no matter what excuses occur to you. In short, you are free. Thoughts come and …
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Sometimes we do find the words to express an idea, and only then realize what a stupid idea it is. This experience would suggest that our thoughts are not as clean and beautiful as we would like to believe. Instead of blaming language for failing to capture our thoughts, maybe we should thank it for …
Working from home means you can work any 18 hours of the day that you choose. Do You Want to Blog Full-Time? Here’s a Reality Check That Nobody Else Will Give You Source: thefinancialblogger.com
Everything You Want, You Already Have « Books for Behavior Change
Hoffman explains the nature of his work by offering an extended analogy. In the process, he deftly summarizes a lot of Eastern spiritual teachings. Unfortunately, the clip omits Hoffman’s concluding line—one that throws the premise of many self-help books into question. Here’s that line: “When you get the blanket thing, you can relax, because everything …
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Wednesday Workout: Testing your assumptions | I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. — Mike Tyson Wednesday Workout: Testing your assumptions | I Will Teach You To Be Rich
The Church of Rationality
Years back, when I was an angry young man, I read an interview with Phil Collins. Phil Collins might seem like an inappropriate music interest for an angry young man, and that’s right, but I was also a bored young man; it seems the two often go together. Anyway, Collins said something remarkable, along the …
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