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“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent [https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2359336] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This book
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I'm always slightly scared that I'm not good enough to make a ton of money. That being able to accrue assets is this secret magical spell that some are gifted with at birth, and instead of being blessed by the money fairy, some crusty old sea
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I'm not a very present person. My thoughts are like a puzzle, but instead of the pieces making a cohesive picture on someone's orderly living room table, mine float in the air, twisting and turning and mashing together in chaos. It's a beautiful mess
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The other night, I was playing fetch with my roommate's dog, and I was completely in the moment with him. I was smiling and laughing and wrestling the chew toy out of his tiny little mouth, and time changed shape- it slowed down and then became spherical, engulfing
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I'm going to do it, y'all. I'm going to start a business. I have until January to figure out what that is and actually start. See you in Makerland soon!
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If you're thinking of starting a blog, but you're scared it'll be an embarrassing pile of crap, or if you already blog regularly but you're doubting yourself, I recommend checking out Tim Ferriss's original 2006/2007 blog [https://web.archive.
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> "I don't care how beat a guy is, he'll have a theory why he's beat. A theory can lead you down the garden path 'cause you'll follow it in spite of road signs." - The Winter of our Discontent,
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The older I get, the more I'm learning that I can just trust the way I feel. I can't find the quote, but I remember Pieter Levels saying that when he gets anxious around people, it's not his fault for being 'anxious and
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I had a very clear idea for tonight's post in my head (it was there throughout the whole day too) but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. It's been a really long week. I was in bed just now
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Stream of consciousness-type thinking while on a walk today. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I feel like it's too fucking late for me to do anything cool and I'm trying to forgive myself for not being current me when I was 15. I wasn't too old to nomad
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A little while before Cortés conquered the Aztec empire, he was having one hell of a bad day. His men all wanted to quit and go home. Thirty of them had died of tropical diseases, and the rest would rather take a nap than take over. Turn back. It'
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I'm reading Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck. It sounded very 2020; couldn't resist! 😉 I wanted to take a break from business books, and since 1984 was so damn good, I'm reading more novels by classic authors. What's fascinating is it'