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Khawaja Affan retweeted
An influencer is incentivized by attention, so their content must be optimized to be consumed and forgotten (cheap dopamine).
A personal brand is incentivized by money, so their content must be optimized to move you down their sales funnel.
An artisan is incentivized by the satisfaction that comes from the quality of their work. They need attention and money, but for the sole purpose of spending more time on work they enjoy and the impact it has.
Become an artisan.
Khawaja Affan retweeted
the universal blueprint stamped on every man’s psyche: the mechanics of collective mind, the shadow it casts on your life and the exact 3-step method to recognize & integrate your dominant archetype
Khawaja Affan retweeted
There are entire books on philosophy that don't get anywhere near these lines from St. Seraphim of Sarov
Khawaja Affan retweeted
Your first attempt might not be very good, but nobody's early work is good. There will always be a gap between where you are and where you want to be. And the bridge between that gap is courage. The courage to look foolish in the beginning. The courage to show up again when your early work is criticized. The courage to look yourself in the mirror and say, "I realize I'm not good enough yet, but the only way to get better is to keep working on it."
Khawaja Affan retweeted
Privatise everything. Share nothing. Become a man of few words. Embarass yourself less. Your goals should toil inside you like a tornado, knocking over everything inside you until you realise enough is enough.
Don’t speak. No one will understand anyway.
Khawaja Affan retweeted
To truly understand light you must experience pitch black darkness.
You can't truly say you know anything until you've stood on both sides of the pendulum.
Khawaja Affan retweeted
I’m in love with this sentence:
“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
Khawaja Affan retweeted
This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard.
“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”
Khawaja Affan retweeted
I am highly recommending to you these video essays on the human mind and psychology.
