“Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking.”
― Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
― Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.” ~Aaron Swartz”
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“Rilke’s reflections have proven timeless and timely, over and over, in countless human lives —”
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“faute de mieux——" "I don't get you, Jeeves." "A French expression, sir, signifying 'for want of anything better'.”
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“My dad used to ask my brother and me at the dinner table what we had failed at that week," she told the audience at a recent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship event in New York City. "I can remember coming home from school and saying, 'Dad, I tried out for this and I was horrible!' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go!' If I didn't have something that I had failed at, he actually would be disappointed." This dinner table tradition allowed Blakely to see the value in failure. "My dad always encouraged me to fail, and because of this, he gave me the gift of retraining my thinking about failure," she explained. "Failure for me became about not trying, instead of the outcome." ”
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