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Though I’m talking about being funny in scenes right now, if you’re truly a funny person you should want to be surprising all the time in your life. You want to walk up to a vending machine at work, then realize that your co-worker is watching you, and instead of buying anything, at the last second give the machine a high-five and walk away. A friend asks if you want to try a bite of his meal, and you take the entire steak off his plate and put it on yours. You should want to do things like this all the time.
How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth
Will Hines
It is critical to define your work in terms of the actual physical activity involved, rather than content, meaning or outcome. And doing so at a detailed level. It is not enough to distinguish between walking and typing at your laptop. You have to be sensitive to whether you’re typing on the couch or at a desk, and whether you’re doing so at home with the TV going, at work alone, or in a coffee shop with background chatter.
The Four Seasons of Lifehacking
tempobook.com
the first man only thinks, the second only feels, and the third lives only by his instincts and moving functions; so we have, as it were, a logical man, an emotional man, and a physical man. These three in one never understand each other; not only that, but consciously, and even unconsciously, they interfere with one another, with each other’s plans and intentions and work; and yet each of them at the moment when he is in action speaks with authority, and says “I”.
Teachings of Gurdjieff
C. S. Nott
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