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Micah Yongo
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What speaking at Oxford University taught me about focus
You’ve gotta keep control of your time. The words of Warren Buffet, apparently spoken whilst proffering the empty pages of his little black diary book to a certain Bill Gates during a meeting back in 1991, “and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.” Just one of… Continue reading What speaking at Oxford University taught me about focus →
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Lost Gods (Lost Gods, #1)
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2018
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Pale Kings (Lost Gods, #2)
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2019
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“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
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“… You know, it’s said a man chooses his place in the world, but I’m not so sure. I often wonder if it isn’t already set for him, like a seat at the banquet table, and his choice merely an illusion conjured to him by the fact he made his own way to the chair…”
― Lost Gods
― Lost Gods
“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.
Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.
We can't be anything we want to be.
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― The War of Art
Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.
We can't be anything we want to be.
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― The War of Art
