You can’t get it all from reading
From Recomendo, issue #361:
You can’t get it all from reading. — Which is just a reminder that everyone needs someone to call them out on their B.S. like a therapist, an accountability buddy or a best friend.
From Recomendo, issue #361:
You can’t get it all from reading. — Which is just a reminder that everyone needs someone to call them out on their B.S. like a therapist, an accountability buddy or a best friend.
Tom Peters shares the story of an executive who was trying to decide which of two managers to promote. He said that his method was simple: Look at the careers of all the people who used to work for each of the two managers. And then look at the careers of the people who used to work for those people.
— Seth Godin, The Song of Significance, p. 74
A poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer stolen directly from the great blog A Learning a Day:
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
Steve Jobs on creativity:
To be a creative person, you need to “feed” or “invest” in yourself by exploring uncharted paths that are outside the realm of your past experience. Seek out new dimensions of yourself—especially those that carry a romantic scent.
But one has no way of knowing which of these paths will lead anywhere in advance. That’s the wonderful thing about it, in a way. The only thing one can do is to believe that some of what you follow with your heart will indeed come back to make your life much richer. And it will. And you will gain an ever firmer trust in your instincts and intuition.
— Steve Jobs, Make Something Wonderful