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“Кажется, Альфред Хичкок... сказал однажды: "Бомба с включённым таймером, спрятанная под кроватью, где молодожёны занимаются любовью, много страшнее бомбы, взорвавшейся и разметавшей этих молодожёнов по асфальту". Ожидание страшней всего. Предчувствие ужасней события. Ночь перед казнью острее гильотины.”
― Время нарушать запреты
― Время нарушать запреты
“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn’t have any fresh air. There’s no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience.”
― When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
― When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether - when you are limited to the school material and you get bored, you have a tendency to give up and do nothing or play hooky out of discouragement.
The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading. So the number of the pages absorbed could grow faster than otherwise. And you find gold, so to speak, effortlessly, just as in rational but undirected trial-and-error-based research. It is exactly like options, trial and error, not getting stuck, bifurcating when necessary but keeping a sense of broad freedom and opportunism.
Trial and error is freedom.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading. So the number of the pages absorbed could grow faster than otherwise. And you find gold, so to speak, effortlessly, just as in rational but undirected trial-and-error-based research. It is exactly like options, trial and error, not getting stuck, bifurcating when necessary but keeping a sense of broad freedom and opportunism.
Trial and error is freedom.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Ask Austin Kleon - Thursday, March 13th!
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Join us on Thursday, March 13th, for a special discussion with author Austin Kleon! The author will be discussing his book Show Your Work. Become a f ...more
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