7 things Maria Popova learned in 7 years of reading, writing and living
- Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.
- Do nothing out of guilt, do nothing for prestige or money or status or approval alone.
- Be generous. Be generous with your time, with your resources, with giving credit but most of all with your words.
- Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate, run, go for a walk. Be as religious about your sleep as you are about your work.
- When people try to show you who YOU are do not believe them.
- Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.
- Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.
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