The 7 Lessons
- Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.
- Do nothing out of guilt, or for prestige, status, money or approval alone.
- Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words.
- Build pockets of stillness into your life.
- Maya Angelou famously said, ‘When
people tell you who they are, believe them’. But even more importantly,
when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them.
- Presence is far more intricate and
rewarding an art than productivity. As Annie Dillard memorably put it,
“how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
- Debbie Millman captures our modern predicament beautifully: “Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.”
_Maria Popova
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