“If you have trouble to make all ends meet, have less ends”.
Maand: mei 2021
Verdrinken
“You don’t drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”
– Zig Ziglar
Gezochte incompetentie
“True learning (as opposed to education) is a voluntary experience that requires tension and discomfort (the persistent feeling of incompetence as we get better at a skill).”
– Seth Godin, The Practice
Keep it simple, stupid.
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
– Buckminster Fuller
On happiness
Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
Verjaardagen
Curiosity
If you aren’t curious about it, you’ll never be good at it.
Focus
“There’s never a task too great or too small, because the only task to accomplish is the one in front of me. It might appear that there are a thousand things to do, but in fact there is never more than one.”
Katie Byron in A Thousand Names For Joy
I am not a noun
“I live on this earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I’m not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process an integral function of the universe.”
– Buckminster Fuller
Expect problems, and eat them for breakfast
“Problems have solutions. That’s what makes them problems. A problem without a solution isn’t a problem, it’s simply a situation.”
– Seth Godin in The Practice