[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.]
[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.]
Ten minutes of screenless silence, then free writing your thoughts in a notebook.
If music was the only contribution to this world from capoeira, we'd still be quite rich for it.
When does it make sense to focus on not liking someone's approach versus accepting and appreciating diverse ways?