“Every situation begins inside you and reflects where you are at this moment. Trust that your soul wants the best for you.”
“As the number of apparently significant digits in the data available to us goes up (traffic was up .1% yesterday!) we continually seek causation, even if we’re looking in the wrong places. As the amount of data we get continues to increase, we need people who can help us turn that data into information.”
Seth’s Blog: Folk wisdom and proofiness (via davidhoffman)
YES!
(via davidhoffman)
“Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.”
So true.
i heart everything Dave Brown posts. EVERYTHING.
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there’s often a shortage of discipline.
- Scott Belsky
i’m very much a “why” person meaning that the most important thing to me about a person/company is the aspiration they’re striving toward… i only ever want to work with and be associated with people who seek a greater purpose beyond themselves.
i’m largely uninterested with those who do purely to make money… in my mind, money is like fuel… its only purpose is to enable, enhance and expand greater aspirations (aka to help and touch people in a larger way).
i very strongly feel that focusing purely on making money, with no higher purpose, is a dead and inevitably unhappy end. though it may reap potentially positive results in the short-term, i think it will only hurt in the end.
i am without question an idealist and visionary. a happy day to me is thinking and dreaming about all the ways i might possibility touch and impact someone (or everyone!) in a positive way. i want to die knowing that i was able to help at least a few people (or the world!) reach their dreams.
(i’m also totally open to falling madly in love, traveling/experiencing as much of the world as possible, taking a shit ton of photos, having time to reflect/analyze/write as i pursue the path of understanding and helping as many people as possible feel happy/inspired/accomplished.)
all that said, I agree with Scott in that it takes discipline and a focus on “how” to make any “why” a reality. as simon sinek says, it takes a how person to turn any vision into something tangible.
in my experience, while i CAN do both the why and how, it’s far more effective to find someone as obsessed with how as i am with why. its this combination that allows for big ideas (combined with idea constraints) to actually make shit happen.
Interesting urban typography I spotted this morning in the fair city of Dublin, Ireland.
i love this message.
“don’t try and analyze it - just live it.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
“No one likes to lose, and most healthy people live their life to win. The only variation is the score we use. For some it’s money, for others it’s fame or awards. For some it’s power, love, a family or spiritual fulfillment. The metric is relative, but the desire is the same.
The drive to win is not, per se, a bad thing. Problems arise, however, when the metric becomes the only measure of success, when what you achieve is no longer tied to WHY you set out to achieve it in the first place.
”“Changes only happen when we go against everything we’re used to doing.”
amen to this.
life is a series of moments that create the story of your life. i live for moments that matter (to me).
this reminds me that my selling my car and all of my furniture, donating all but about 12 outfits to goodwill, and coming to NYC from SF with only as much as I could travel with was one of the greatest decisions I’ve made thus far in life.
(h/t bekahkall)
the HOLSTEE manifesto is beautiful.
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And therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things.
Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I’m following, and I’m not walking in anyone else’s footsteps. I’m making it up as I go.
”Thoughts on tour « Hoehn’s Musings (via superamit)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.”
yes yes and more yes.
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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
”Steve Jobs on following your heart and intuition. I <3 the way he thinks.
Text of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005)
(thanks Alex for sending to me)
