7 for Sunday

The third reason is that looking at new things, even if they’re just new streetcorners or deer trails, helps me recover a certain uncomplicated way of looking at things that used to be automatic when I was a kid. ~ David Cain from, https://www.raptitude.com/2022/05/how-to-get-the-magic-back/ Just as I read this, it occurred to me that a…

Contribute your suggestion without having built a body of work, without evidence of significant expertise and without being willing to take responsibility for what happens next. It’s a form of yelling from the bleachers. ~ Seth Godin from, https://seths.blog/2022/05/the-grandstanders/ I was totally this person. Once I saw what was going on and I could work…

If you find yourself wanting to speed up the reading process on a particular book, you may want to ask yourself, “Is this book any good?” ~ Ryan Holiday from, https://ryanholiday.net/13-reading-strategies/ Long-time readers will be well aware of my self-diagnosed problem with books. I’ve spent a lot of time reading about reading about books, but this…

Particularly radical was Franklin’s idea about who could pursue happiness in this way. In Europe at the time, mainly aristocratic men with means would have been able to pursue lifelong learning in a formal sense. Franklin rejected this. He believed that “this pursuit was not the province of the upper classes,” Burns told me, “but…