Travis

“There is a difference between a belief and a conviction. A belief can become something you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Seeing Jesus from the East: A Fresh Look at History’s Most Influential Figure

“Sherry Turkle describes the way texting and online chatting have threatened true friendship because they allow us to plan and curate the versions of ourselves that we bring to our discussions. When we’re removed from facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice, and when we have time to consider and edit our replies, we don’t face the risk that face-to-face conversation naturally brings. So we don’t risk being known as someone less than perfect.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“how normal it has become to feel as though you absolutely must do more than you can do.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“It might seem that nothing would be easier than deciding what you like, but it turns out to be hard, partly because it’s hard to get an accurate picture of most jobs. . . . Most of the work I’ve done in the last ten years didn’t exist when I was in high school. . . . In such a world it’s not a good idea to have fixed plans. And yet every May, speakers all over the country fire up the Standard Graduation Speech, the theme of which is: don’t give up on your dreams. I know what they mean, but this is a bad way to put it, because it implies you’re supposed to be bound by some plan you made early on. The computer world has a name for this: premature optimization. . . . . . . Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. This is what most successful people actually do anyway. In the graduation-speech approach, you decide where you want to be in twenty years, and then ask: what should I do now to get there? I propose instead that you don’t commit to anything in the future, but just look at the options available now, and choose those that will give you the most promising range of options afterward.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World