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my public personal accountability challenge:
1) read 160 long-form philosophy essays over next 6 months. Essays here: bit.ly/2OTuCDo
2) summarize it in 1 sentence on this thread
join me? #mindexpansionchallenge
my public personal accountability challenge:
1) read 160 long-form philosophy essays over next 6 months. Essays here: bit.ly/2OTuCDo
2) summarize it in 1 sentence on this thread
join me? #mindexpansionchallenge
1) How to do what you love by Paul Graham
"Just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself."
2) Travel Is No Cure for the Mind by Lawrence Yeo
"Who we are inside a venue matters far more than the venue itself."
"Just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself."
2) Travel Is No Cure for the Mind by Lawrence Yeo
"Who we are inside a venue matters far more than the venue itself."
3) On Self-Respect by Joan Didion
"However long we post-pone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously un-comfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves."
"However long we post-pone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously un-comfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves."
4) Solitude and Leadership by William Deresiewicz
"Solitude is the very essence of leadership."
"Solitude is the very essence of leadership."
5) Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
6) Personal Renewal by John Gardner
"Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish it to be, an endless process of self-discovery, an endless and unpredictable dialogue between our own potentialities and the life situations in which we find ourselves."
"Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish it to be, an endless process of self-discovery, an endless and unpredictable dialogue between our own potentialities and the life situations in which we find ourselves."
7) The Absurd by Thomas Nagel
"Absurdity is one of the most human things about us. The appropriate response to the human condition is a slightly bemused smile — a celebratory laugh that we understand life's absurdity, yet carry on regardless."
"Absurdity is one of the most human things about us. The appropriate response to the human condition is a slightly bemused smile — a celebratory laugh that we understand life's absurdity, yet carry on regardless."
8) In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty."
"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty."
9) The Creative Process by James Baldwin
"Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone."
essay here: bit.ly/2PWpYFd
"Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone."
essay here: bit.ly/2PWpYFd
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