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The tryer fixates on the difficulty of the task, and hopes for relief in the form of success. The intender fixates on success and navigates any difficulty arising on the way.

https://www.raptitude.com/2020/07/dont-try-intend/

Truth is a radical, personal realization. You have to come to it.

“Truth is beauty, beauty truth. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” - Keats

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Lena Horne

I love William Blake…. William Blake said, “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.” He’s telling you that you’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do.

Kris Kristofferson https://austinkleon.com/2019/09/25/youll-be-miserable-if-you-dont-do-what-youre-supposed-to-do/

After Jennifer Lopez’s show-stopping halftime performance with Shakira, it’s such a teachable moment to see how much self-doubt and rejection she went ... 441 comments on LinkedIn

“In the world we know today, true hospitality is rebellious, radical. The act of opening yourself up to give or receive a meal, a drink, or a safe place to stay, flies in the face of a culture fixated on speed and self-reliance. To willingly place yourself in the hands of another, and exchange feelings of welcome and gratitude, may well be the ancient practice that keeps saving the world one generation at a time.”

6 Things I've Learned From Hosting Kindred Dinners | The Art of Simple

"I try not to dress in something that would be more important to me than having a good time. I wouldn't want to stop doing something for fear that my outfit would get ruined or weird-looking in the act of having fun."

Book recommendation: "Women in Clothes" — Anuschka Rees

"A problem I've always had with fashion magazines is that women are encouraged to copy other women. [...] It's almost as if fashion magazines don't understand what a woman wants. I think she wants to be unique among women, a creature unlike any other."

Book recommendation: "Women in Clothes" — Anuschka Rees

Find the clothes that suit you best, that make you feel comfortable, confident, sexy, good looking and happy… and then hang on to them like old friends."

Timeless Style Advice from 70s Classic "Cheap Chic" — Anuschka Rees

“There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.” —Jackie French Koller

Minimalist Living: 7 Ways to Sample Living With Less

[P]ersonal belongings are not the key to happiness, [...] security is found in [one's] character, and that the pursuit of happiness runs a different road than the pursuit of possessions. These are valuable life lessons.

12 Reasons I Like Owning Less

Former Credit Karma CPO Nikhyl Singhal shares the phases a product org goes through as a startup matures — and his tips for transitioning between them gracefully. From the mistakes that are too easy to make to what to look for when hiring, his playbook helps founders and product leaders build teams capable of finding product/market fit and handling hypergrowth.

But he had a stern warning for his monks: an artisan who “becomes puffed up by his skillfulness in his craft, and feels he is conferring something on the monastery” should be ordered to cease his work until he’s able to do it with humility. This rule makes no sense to secular eyes. Out in the world, talent is considered a rare commodity. Firms compete for workers with expertise—whether they’re coders or surgeons or quarterbacks—and then try to get them to work as many hours as possible. That’s how corporations believe they’ll make the most money. In the monastery, though, expertise can get in the way of the community’s health and impede the expert’s spiritual development. If a skilled artisan invests himself in his craft, he’ll develop his talent and become more productive. But this investment carries the risk of pride, the fundamental human sin. If the monk isn’t vigilant, or if his brothers aren’t vigilant on his behalf, the pleasure he takes in the craft might overtake the purpose for which the craft is done.

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/taming-demon

This concept echoes something Pope John Paul II wrote in his 1981 encyclical on work, Laborem exercens: “human work has an ethical value of its own, which clearly and directly remains linked to the fact that the one who carries it out is a person, a conscious and free subject.” We need to acknowledge this value, in others and ourselves, if we’re going to keep the desire for productivity from turning demonic. A quarterly profit goal isn’t worth as much as the person who labors, at the cost of her health, to meet it. No reputation for customer satisfaction is worth as much as the person who fills orders and endures complaints. Your pride in a job well done, or your anxiety, or your ego: none of those is worth as much as your dignity as a person.

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/taming-demon

But the biggest one is something I first heard from fellow burnout scholar Jonathan Malesic: think deeply and consistently about how your own actions, and standards, and practices create burnout in others. That can be as simple as not being the one who emails at 9 pm on a Saturday (just because it feels fine to you, and maybe not even like a personal burnout behavior, doesn’t mean it’s not creating expectations of always-on-ness in others). How you act — as a manager, as a co-worker, as a partner, as a parent — has ripple effects that extend far past the immediate relationship. That’s easy to understand on an intimate, inter-personal level — but harder, I think, when we start thinking about the deeper causes of burnout (economic precarity and exploitation) and our place within the larger world of contemporary capitalism. In other words: how our own spending habits create burnout in others.

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/what-great-inconvenience

"This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically woke and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly, [...] I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, that the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that's enough. [...] The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids and, you know, share certain things with you." "That is not activism," he concluded. "That is not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far."

Barack Obama laid into call-out culture: 'That is not activism' - Business Insider

“People are suffering,” she said. “People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” “For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear,” she continued. “How dare you continue to look away and come here, saying that you’re doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight. You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation, and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil—and that I refuse to believe." She said, finally, “You’re failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say, we will never forgive you.”

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