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Showing posts with label good advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good advice. Show all posts
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”[Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
more wisdom here
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Good Advice: How to Steal Like An Artist
This whole list is just so freaking' good! And it's good advice for creative-types and not-so-creative people alike (although, I think deep down, everyone is creative, we just don't always know how to tap into it). Austin Kleon is a writer and artist, and is working on a book based on this post. I also love his Newspaper Blackout Poems, and pretty much everything up on his site. Go over to his blog and read the whole thing. Do it!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Bad Advice: Some thoughts on yesterday's post
Yesterday, I posted a Rainer Maria Rilke quotation for OAtZ's regular Monday morning "Good Advice" feature. I originally shared it because at the time I thought it was good advice, and because I liked the poster.
But something about that quote has been bugging me ever since it went up, and now, I'm not so sure I agree with Rilke's advice anymore. Should you just let life happen to you? Maybe, sometimes, but probably not always. Sure, there are certainly things in life that you can't control, and dwelling over them is usually a waste of time and energy. Those are the times when the only thing to do is find a way to accept the situation and move on. But. How do you know when it's time to accept, and when it's time to fight?
A friend teased me on twitter about this quotation yesterday, suggesting it sounded vaguely pro-life. That most definitely was not how I intended it to be taken. I know that this was said with tongue firmly in cheek, but it kinda cemented the discomfort I was already feeling about it. Just to briefly clarify my feelings on that topic, I believe that if there is something you can do to change your life for the better, then you must do it. For some, that might mean choosing to terminate in the face of an unplanned pregnancy. That is something we (thankfully) still have the right to do in this country. But it could also mean voting, taking action, being passionate and caring enough to create the life you want for yourself and to do whatever you can to create the kind of world you want to live in. It means, quite simply, that when we do have a choice, it's imperative that we make a choice, rather than letting someone else choose for us.
The Rilke quote may be about acceptance rather than apathy, but there is a fine line between them, and it's very important to know the difference. There is a passivity in letting life simply happen to you, it means losing control of your own destiny and allowing others to shape the world around you. Don't simply let life happen, make it happen. And when it doesn't happen the way you expect, at least know that you tried, and that you will try again. That is far better advice than what I passed on yesterday. Thanks for reading.
Monday, April 18, 2011
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
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