On life choices, trial and error as a way of life and doing your best work
The #1 Mindset Shift to Stop Other People’s Judgments From Ruining Your Day
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Professor of philosophy L.A. Paul on life choices
“As we live our lives, we find ourselves confronted with a brute fact about how little we can know about our futures—just when it is most important to us that we do know. For many big life choices, we only learn what we need to know after we’ve done it, and we change ourselves in the process of doing it. I’ll argue that, in the end, the best response to this situation is to choose based on whether we want to discover who we’ll become.”
Source: Transformative Experience
Journalist and author Hunter S Thompson on designing your life
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.”
Source: Letters of Note
Chef Wylie Dufresne on the value of simplicity
“Jean-Georges Vongerichten showed me the value in taking away, taking things off of a plate. He always talked about two, three, four elements on a plate. That’s it. The more you put on the plate, the easier it is to hide. The more you take away, there’s nowhere to hide—it has to be good.”
Source: A Conversation with Wylie Dufresne
Ralph Waldo Emerson on trial and error as a way of life
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] ed
Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson on personal responsibility
“Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.”
Source: Old Mortality (1884)
Singer and songwriter David Bowie on doing your best work
“If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
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The #1 Mindset Shift to Stop Other People’s Judgments From Ruining Your Day
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”― Wayne W. Dyer
Protect your energy like it’s sacred — because it is. Don’t hand it over to someone who doesn’t even know what they’re projecting. What they say about you says more about them. What do you believe about you?
That’s your power over your life.
Let them judge. You live.
3 questions worth pondering
What single habit, if implemented consistently for the rest of this year, would transform your life the most?
When you wake up, do you expect today to have many joys or many frustrations?
If you had 10x the agency you have, what would you do?
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Be Well.
Thomas