Can you use a hammer without injuring yourself? Give Habitat for Humanity a call. Are you a budgeting ninja? Call Boys and Girls Club and offer to teach young men and women to budget. Do your friends tell you that you talk too much? Go to a retirement home and talk with people who have long been forgotten.
there is no language without a listener who can understand what is being said.
[God Speed is three miles per hour. Jesus didn't take a chariot to get there faster.]
[Can worrying add even a single hour to your life?]
[Clients don't value your effort or service as much as how it makes them feel or the possibilities it opens for them, so charge who's willing to pay for that.]
Does this need to be said? Right now? By me? If I can't yes all three, I don't say it.
Put a big book on your stomach, then watch it go up and down; you might feel calmer.
If your video game character dies in the first 30 seconds, do you switch off your machine and walk away?
A farmer can't work so hard on Monday that he's sore on Tuesday, and neither can your computer.
mocking your opposition without reducing their power is not a flex.
[Bring some cookies to your neighbour for no reason other than they might need to smile today.]
[I didn't give her a tip or make her famous, just told her I loved her voice.]
[The point of leaving the flock to go after the lost sheep isn't to bring them back, but to let them know they're loved.]
learn to teach so others can learn
254: Language Transfer with Mihalis Eleftheriou
[We tend to teach by showing but that's not always what's most effective; dogs and cats do that too. Sometimes it's better to explain with words what is helpful for the learner.]
[We're already translating thoughts into language.]
[Xenophobia that occurs naturally as a brain resonse needs help and solutions more than ostracizing, and learning the foreign language can be super helpful there.]
A book cannot do something for you. Instead, reading a book can change you into someone who can do something for yourself. The role of a great medium is not to help people get things done, but to help people become deeper people — by providing a context in which they grow their skills and knowledge, broaden their context and perspective, and deepen their awareness and discernment.
whichever side you take, someone profits from the merch
[All grief is one: like touching the ocean at any of the imaginary lines we've drawn, it's all one body of water.]
[When my partner senses that I'm holding back grief and invites me with a simple gesture like a hand on the shoulder, it's hard to meet them there but I try to anyway, because to say "no worries, everything's fine" would be to negate their good instincts for how I'm feeling.]
[I appreciate things that make me cry because they give me the chance to shed a few more of the tears repressed during childhood, when I had learned that doing so was dangerous.]
