Posts tagged life
How To Be Gracious
Tom Chiarella writing for Esquire:
Remember that the only representation of you, no matter what your station, is you — your presentation, your demeanor. You simply must attend. Stand when someone enters the room, especially if you are lowly and he is the boss, and even if the reverse is true. Look them in the eye. Ask yourself: Does anybody need an introduction? If so, before you say one word about business, introduce them to others with pleasure in your voice. If you can’t muster enthusiasm for the people you happen upon in life, then you cannot be gracious. Remember, true graciousness demands that you have time for others.
I am of the school of encouraging people toward their ultimate polymath identities. It is only within more recent history that people have been increasingly pressured to decide their entire lives and selves early on. This acceptance of sameness, of homogeneity, it is a sort of globalizing of our very existences, a mirroring of what is taking place in the world at large. The more we limit ourselves, the more we come into conflict with the reality that a human being inevitably transforms into many different selves throughout the span of a lifetime.
Here is something false: “You only live once”
(via @tosin9)
Here is Something False: You Only Live Once
Startups, life, learning and happiness: 6 things I do to be consistently happy
Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer, and with the year and a half before that which I worked on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice a few patterns amongst the ups and downs that come with building a startup.
One of the most important things I’ve…
Fantastic reminders by @JoelGascoigne
How are you educating yourself? 344 illustrated flowcharts to answer life’s big questions on happiness and success.
Plus Projects: Some beliefs, values, thoughts...
“HELL YEAH!”
1+1=3
Josef AlbersThe key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark TwainA ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas GandhiNo more yes. It’s either HELL YEAH! or no.
Derek SiversIt’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
Annie GottlierTo be creative and to generate ideas, you have to be in a positive mindset. Playing and having fun are vital for that.
Be more interested than interesting.
Russell DaviesHe who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond HullBeing naive can be a great tool.
We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way.
Sir James DysonYou don’t have to know everything to know enough.
Searching for source…All progress is experimental.
John Jay ChapmanIt’s simple, if you don’t do something for your own reasons, you’ll either do it terribly, be terribly unhappy doing it, or both.
Scott DinsmoreDon’t work ‘for,’ work ‘with.’
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim RohnValue people’s time.
Persistent flexibility.
Reid HoffmanSprint and recover.
Intermittently disengaging is what allows us to passionately reengage.
Jim Loehr & Tony SchwartzA constant sense of emergency makes it difficult for anyone to step back and make more thoughtful choices.
Jim Loehr & Tony SchwartzWork completed matters infinitely more than raw hours invested.
Scott H YoungFailing is a positive thing. It means you took action. It’s the only way to learn.
Seth Godin: Insulate Yourself
Insulate yourself…
from anonymous angry people
Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand
Precisely measure the results that are important to you
Stay blind to the metrics that don’t matter
Fail often
Ship
Lead, don’t manage so much
Seek out uncomfortable situations
Make an impact on the people who matter to you
Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
Copyedit less, invent more
Give more speeches
Ignore unsolicited advice
The pleasure of working as a scientist is having another series of methods to see how the world around us works. That’s how people should be taught science as young children: a way to approach the world. It’s so much fun that people would use it their whole lives whether or not they go into science.
Excuses are easy to find (but worthless)
Even good excuses, really good ones, don’t help very much.
Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful.
And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
Embrace uncertainty in an unstructured world. Find certainty in uncertainty. Find comfort in diversity, risk, change & openness.
