Welcome to Friday,
I came across this quote from James Clear earlier this week, and it’s stuck with me, “You can either be judged because you created something or ignored because you left your greatness inside of you. Your call.”
You can only control your own output. What anyone thinks of it isn’t your responsibility nor your concern.
Here are the links I’d like to share with you this week:
“Few understand just how feeble new ideas look when they first appear.” Paul Graham on “crazy” new ideas, finding such ideas, and how to respond to new ideas when they’re bounced off you. Lots of great thinking in this piece.
Have you ever wondered what spring was like in the Middle Ages? Isn’t it fascinating how something so seemingly straightforward as a seasonal change has shifted over the centuries?
This interview with Samuel Delany and Octavia Spencer, wherein she extols the virtues of literacy, reading science-fiction, and reading multiple books at the same time to, “let those ideas bounce off each other, simmer”. This is something I enjoy doing as well, before I learned of this interview. See how the ideas expressed in whatever you’re reading supplement or contradict or compliment one another; see how you might follow this idea, then add it to that one, and create something entirely new. This is the creative process, simplified.
“The best thing for being sad is to learn something.” Lewis Lapham’s timely Commencement Address at St. John’s College on Merlin’s Owl, where he quotes the above from author T.H. White’s The Once and Future King.
Finally, Duncan Hines was a real man who couldn’t cook. So how did his name end up on boxes of cake mix? Compliment with this link for more information on the Kentucky native.
Currently Reading: Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
Have a beautiful weekend.
