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“You are a ghost driving a meat covered skeleton made from stardust riding a rock floating through space. Fear nothing.”

**Unknown**

“give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky” is even better advice than it appears on the surface.

luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc.

Losing to yourself is more painful than losing to people.

"My approach to what I do in my job… and it might even be the approach to my life… is that everything I do is the most important thing I do. Whether it’s a play or the next film. It is the most important thing. I know it’s not going to be the most important thing, and it might not be close to being the best, but I have to make it the most important thing.



That means I will be ambitious with my job and not with my career. That’s a very big difference…because if I’m ambitious with my career, everything I do now is just stepping-stones leading to something… a goal I might never reach, and so everything will be disappointing. But if I make everything important, then eventually it will become a career.



Big or small, we don’t know. But at least everything was important."



— Mads Mikkelsen

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

- Werner Heisenberg

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

The most effective communicators are ones who most consistently show up as themselves in every form.  Write the same way you talk to your friends at a bar.  Make art that provides a point of view on things you care about.  Exist online the same way you do in real life.

“I want to fill my world with things that make me want to think and create.” -Todd Hido

"Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in morning’s hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die."

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
Envision the life you desire and the person you aspire to become.
It was not the absence of doubt or fear that defined the beginnings of the most successful people but rather their audacity to act despite them.
The time for hesitation has passed.
Remember, it is in the act of starting that the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary.
"One Day" or "Day One".
It's your choice.

11) “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. 

Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” 

— Richard Feynman

<n>Things to do on Sundays for a more productive week</n>.

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus

Speak your future into reality.

Say what you're going to do. Say who you're going to become.

Then go out and act to make it a reality.

Life: the eternal dance - the cosmic celebration

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.



It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.



It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.



I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.



I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.



I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.



It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.



I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.



If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.



I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.



I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, ‘Yes.’



It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.



It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.



It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.



I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Study everything at every second of every day. Attempt to write the textbook instead of reading one. *Applied research* is an innate style that dominates all aspects of the inventor's life.

“Applied research \[is\] a type of research that attempts to find practical solutions to existing problems. These can include a variety of challenges, such as infrastructure and conservation. This type of research employs empirical methodologies, such as experiments, to develop an understanding of new knowledge”.

“While basic research focuses on curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, applied research takes a different approach by examining how real-world phenomena or outcomes can be altered. At its core, applied research is oriented towards identifying practical solutions to specific problems.”

Everything I know about my light was taught to me by my darkness.

Quote from <n>The Velveteen Rabbit</n> by <n>Margery Williams Bianco</n>.

A handwritten reminder shared by <n>THE YOUTH CLUB</n>.