This is a newsletter where you get three perception-altering ideas every Saturday that help you become a better person.
And these insights don’t come from random “deep quotes” searches on the Web, mind you, but from (mostly) books, podcasts, articles, videos. And I share only what I find helpful. So, please share with your loved ones, if you find this stuff valuable.
Here are this week’s insights:
1. Dare to Fail
‘It’s only in faerie tales that everything works out for the best with a magik spell or a prince’s kiss. It’s only in storybooks some little bastard picks up a sword and wields it like he was born to it. The rest of us? We have to work our arses off. And we might not ever taste triumph, but at least we dared to fail. We stand apart from those cowards whispering on the sidelines about how that strong did stumble, while never daring to set foot in the ring themselves. Victors are just folk who were never satisfied being vanquished. The only thing worse than finishing last is not beginning at all. And fuck finishing last.’
Interestingly, this is from a storybook.
2. How to Know Yourself
Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books, and he’ll know a million truths. Put him in a room for a year with silence, and he’ll know himself.
It’s most important to know yourself. Know all about you, as much as you can. Because you’re the one person you’ll be with your whole life.
3. The Song of Your Soul
There is a question at the center of uss all. It drives us. The thing we’re always thinking about. The thing we’re always wanting to do.
It’s not something like drinking or video games or movies. Although it may be, mostly it’s not. I mean, that thing is not something you’d call pleasure, something people do to distract and delude themselves.
And mostly you know what it is. For you’re always trying to live around it. It could be writing. It could be programming. It could be anything.
It’s something that you don’t have to do, but still, you want to do. It’s something that no matter how much time you spend on it, it always feels little, and you enjoy every moment of it.
What’s it that you’re always thinking about?
That’s the song of your soul.
Listen to it. Follow it.
p.s.
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