This comes via www.brainpickings.org/. None of us needs another place to waste time on the internet, but Brain Pickings is curated by Maria Popova. There's only one new thing a day. And it's excellent.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Dreaming big
Tis the season for inspirational commencement addresses. This one, illustrated beautifully by Debbie Millman, actually gave me the chills:
Read the rest here. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/. This page, above, is just the warm up...it gets great on page 4. My favorite part: "We begin by worrying that we're not good enough, smart enough, or talented enough to get what we want, then we voluntarily live in this paralyzing mental framework, rather than confront our own role in this paralysis. Just the possibility of failing turns into a dutiful self-fulfilling prophecy. We begin to believe that these personal restrictions are in fact, the fixed limitations of the world."
This comes via www.brainpickings.org/. None of us needs another place to waste time on the internet, but Brain Pickings is curated by Maria Popova. There's only one new thing a day. And it's excellent.
This comes via www.brainpickings.org/. None of us needs another place to waste time on the internet, but Brain Pickings is curated by Maria Popova. There's only one new thing a day. And it's excellent.
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