Blake Macdonald

“Get a one-inch by one-inch piece of paper and write down the names of the people whose opinions of you matter ... the people on your list should be the people who love you not despite your vulnerability and imperfections, but because of them.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead

“There is the possibility, even the likelihood, of self-approving and extravagantly error-prone behavior on the part of those closely associated with money.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria

“Maybe that's what intimacy was... A sense of dread at what could go wrong, a stifling of fear, a baring of the vulnerable self to the judgement of someone else. The jagged edge of one soul meeting another, tearing and rending, a connection and a diminishment both. All that imperfection, all that friction - it wore down the tread, expanding rather than preserving.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Prodigal Son

“Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.”
― Adam Grant, Originals