What Can This Five-Century-Old Drawing Teach You? Everything That Matters.
“My arrow (I promise you) spares no one // You will all dance the ballet of which I sing”
“My arrow (I promise you) spares no one // You will all dance the ballet of which I sing”
It’s the work that was bold and brash and new when it came out that tends to still feel fresh decades later.
Because if you get caught, you will fall. It will hurt.
Any routine junkie can tell you what happens when your routine gets messed up: Your thoughts race. You get frustrated. You feel what is almost like withdrawals.
“If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”
His question is not: How many games do you want to win? It’s how good do you want to be?
“You wait for the big moment, and what you get is gradual transition.”
The reason we work so hard is for “financial freedom.” Somehow we always seem to end up awfully unfree, don’t we?
A single book can unlock an idea, start a business, generate a change, seal a life decision, open you to a new perspective, prepare you for some unknown adversity that lies around a curve in the road.
I always thought online mobs were scary and dangerous. But this new normal seems just as scary.