When Zeno of Cyprus was shipwrecked and stranded on Athens, he wasn’t expecting any good to happen. Having lost everything and with not much else to do, Zeno wandered into a bookshop and was quickly absorbed by the teachings of Socrates. After studying with the great philosophers of his time, he decided to impart his […]
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Seeing patterns everywhere? You’re not alone.
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A false path is something that we are attracted to for the wrong reasons such as fame, fortune, and attention. Our work suffers when that happens.
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The Book In A Single Sentence Knowledge works in very different and counter-intuitvie ways; perhaps having knowledge isn’t personally very important at all. Personal Thoughts The Knowledge Illusion is a great primer on how knowledge works. Why do we need knowledge? How do we think? What do we get wrong? These are topics that the book […]
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There are far more good opportunities and activities in the world than we realistically have time for. No matter how good the opportunity may be, it can very well still be trivial if it doesn’t help us to reach where we want to go
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The Book In A Single Sentence You need to collaborate with others and show your work; the story of the lone genius is a myth that needs to die. Personal Thoughts Show Your Work is a personal manifesto on how to get creative work of any sort done. If you do anything that involves personal […]
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This is a book summary on Real Artists Don’t Starve by Jeff Goins. It also includes my personal thoughts and some notes that I’ve taken from the book.
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