Instead of always trying to be your best, ask yourself how to avoid being at your worst.

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If you’re stuck, change your perspective.

What you see from 20,000 feet is very different from what you see from 2 feet.

Different perspectives reveal different solutions.

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Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow."
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And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
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And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."
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But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
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Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.
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When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.

Khalil Ghibran, The Prophet


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Instead of perfection, focus on progress. Instead of having something done perfectly, focus on just getting it done. From there, you can edit, build, grow, and develop it to exactly what your vision is. But if you don't get started, you'll never arrive.

— Brianna Wiest

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Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings.

The child does what feels right, the adult does what is right.

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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
— Mark Twain

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The worst has happened and it hadn't been that bad.

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Most people enjoy judging others harshly, because it allows them to feel superior.

If you get the sense most people are overly judgemental, it's not your imagination; they are.

This is why; the motive is that denigrating others gives them an ego boost.

They enjoy judging other people harshly because it allows them to feel morally superior.

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The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. Be patient and stay the course.

— Fabienne Fredrickson

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"If you keep showing up, you'll almost certainly break through — but probably not in the way you expected or intended. You need enough persistence to keep working and enough flexibility to enjoy success when it comes in a different form than you imagined."

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"At any moment, you are one good choice away from a meaningfully better life."

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When you speak slowly and have pauses,

It causes people to percieve you as credible;

It makes them assume that what you are saying has been well thought through.

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“Just Be Yourself” is terrible advice.

Far better advice is this; wear the mask that the day and the moment require.

In the unlikely event you naturally have a personality that most people consider to be charming, then just being yourself is a great strategy.

Sadly, your actual personality probably isn't that likeable.

You will need to craft a mask that most people will find likeable, and wear it whenever you enter a venue where the stakes are high.

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I just wrote a new article.

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Read it here: 🔗 How to be miserable for the rest of your life better