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The Genealogy of ideas
Just as you have a familial genealogy, you also have a genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
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Garbage in, Garbage out
There's an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
I think the same thing is true of our idea incomes. You're only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourse...
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All advice is autobiographical
When people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.
This book is me talking to a previous version of myself.
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Nothing is original.
The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something " original," nine out of ten times they just don't know the references or the original sources involved.
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothi...
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
MARK TWAIN
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CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
By curating the content I consume, I document my journey through time and space.
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Soulmates are only an artificial construct in our minds as a result of the movies we see and the songs we listen to.
Music, The Destroyer Of Peace
What hapens when you listen to a music or a song you love?
It gets saved in your backend of brain and it stays there for long, if you consciously notice you will see that you are repeating the music or beats whole day.
Whats the problem?
When we meditate, we focus on our breathi...
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- Pick up that old musical instrument that you've procrastinated to learn;
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