James Clear on the bests
vutran | May 24, 2021, 6:45 p.m.
"The best properties are rarely for sale. The best employees are rarely job hunting. The best clients are rarely shopping. The best option is usually off the market. Most people think this means you can’t have it. What it really means is you have to go find it and sell yourself."
— James Clear
James Clear on the paradox of focus
vutran | May 24, 2021, 6:45 p.m.
"Make the most of one opportunity and more opportunities will come your way. Moving boldly in one direction causes more paths to unfold before you. To get more, focus on less."
— James Clear
Zeynep Tufekci on adding justifications vs admitting a better explanation
vutran | May 24, 2021, 8:02 a.m.
"It is easier to keep adding exceptions and justifications to a belief than to admit that a challenger has a better explanation."
— Zeynep Tufekci
Read More →Mitchell Kapor comparison of getting information off the Internet and drinking from a fire hydrant
vutran | May 18, 2021, 8:20 p.m.
"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
— Mitchell Kapor
Read More →Rory Vaden on Procrastinate on Purpose
vutran | May 18, 2021, 8:16 p.m.
“Success is no longer related to the volume of tasks you complete but rather the Significance of them"
— Rory Vaden
Read More →Louise Erdrich on taking risks
vutran | May 17, 2021, 8:53 p.m.
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich
Read More →Arthur Brooks on Tune Out to Tune In
vutran | May 14, 2021, 7:45 a.m.
"Beethoven became more original and brilliant as a composer in inverse proportion to his ability to hear his own — and others’ — music. But maybe it isn’t so surprising. As his hearing deteriorated, he was less influenced by the prevailing compositional fashions, and more by the musical structures forming inside his own head. His early work is pleasantly reminiscent of his early instructor, the hugely popular Josef Haydn. Beethoven’s later work became so original that he was, and is, regarded as the father of music’s romantic period. ... Deafness freed Beethoven as a composer because he no longer had society’s soundtrack in his ears.."
— Arthur Brooks at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-holiday-season-we-can-all-learn-a-lesson-from-beethoven/2019/12/13/71f21aba-1d0e-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html
