Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
Summary
Life advice from an incredible man. Highest value per word of any book I've read in a long time
Rating: 5/5
Notes
Learn how to learn from those you disagree with
Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid
Forgiveness is not something we do for others, it’s a gift to ourselves
Don’t measure your life with someone else’s ruler
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional
Recipe for greatness: become a tiny bit better than you were last year. Repeat every year
Don’t be the last. Be the only
To be interesting, be interested
If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting
Forgiveness is accepting the apology you will never get
When crises strike, don’t waste them. No problems = no progress
You really don’t want to be famous. Ready the biography of any famous person
You are what you do. Not what you say but what you spend your time on
Life gets better as you replace transactions w/ relationships
Superheroes and saints never make art because art is imperfect. Only imperfect beings can make art because art begins in what’s broken
Don’t aim to have other like you, aim to have them respect you
If you can avoid seeking the approval of others, your power is limitless
Your purpose in life is to discover your purpose. This is not a paradox, this is the way
Be a good ancestor. Do something a future generation will thank you for.
To be remarkable, read books
You don’t marry a person, you are marrying a family
Efficiency is highly overrated. Goofing off is highly underrated. The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic
Making art is not selfish; it’s for the rest of us. If you don’t do your thing, you are cheating the world
What you do on your bad days matters more than what you do on your good days
You will be judged on how well you treat those who can do nothing for you
Don’t compare your inside to someone else’s outside
It doesn’t matter how many people don’t appreciate you or your work. The only thing that counts is how many do
The big dirty secret is that everyone, especially the famous, are just making it up as they go along
The purpose of listening is not to reply but to hear what is not being said
Your goal is to be able to say on the day before you die that you have fully become yourself
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Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
Summary
The life of Steve Jobs in his own words
Rating: 5/5
Notes
Make something wonderful and put it out there
‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear’
When you’re a stranger in a place, you notice thing you don’t otherwise (Jobs after India trip)
Whenever you start with nothing, always shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose.
You never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times
Never be afraid to fail. You never achieve what you want without falling flat on your face a few times
We are never taught to listen to our intuitions, to develop and nurture them. But if you do pay attention to these subtle insights, you can make them come true
Creativity equals connecting previously unrelated experiences and insights others don’t see
Believe that some of what you follow with your heart will come back and make your life richer. And it will. And you will gain even firmer trust on your instincts and intuitions
Make your avocation your vocation. Make what you love your work.
The journey is the reward. The reward isn’t in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it’s in crossing the rainbow
To find A+ talent, if experienced, look at their track record and results
The world we know is a human creation and we can push it forward
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do (read whole ad ‘here’s to the crazy ones)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit - Aristotle
Hire people better than you are
You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life
It’s impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but they make sense looking backwards so you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you
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