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The old finish line becomes the new starting line. Debussy, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix, and Rakim pioneered new approaches to music. Rosa Parks, Harvey Milk, Sally Ride, and Malala Yousafzai broke the glass ceiling, encouraging others to rise. Modern explorers like Tim Ferriss, Neil Strauss, and A.J. Jacobs, instead of finding unknown lands, are finding unknown lifestyles. Each of them shows new possibilities for the rest of us. These pioneers were valuable because they got famous.
Data doesn’t lie. But data is also a reflection of the external crowd, and not necessarily your internal compass.
The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
Nicolas Cole
It becomes difficult to enjoy a moment of rest for itself alone, without regard for any potential future benefits, because rest that has no instrumental value feels wasteful. The truth, then, is that spending at least some of your leisure time “wastefully,” focused solely on the pleasure of the experience, is the only way not to waste it—to be truly at leisure, rather than covertly engaged in future-focused self-improvement. In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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