Fear is not unpleasant. Safety is not always pleasant. Anxiety arises when you test yourself against yourself
恐懼並非令人不悅，安全並非令人愉悅。當你挑戰自我十，就會產生焦慮。
Life might not feel great, it might be repetitive or lack meaning. Find your thing to live for and it will renew your lease on life.
The joy when we give it our all
即使有許多不如意，但也無法剝奪我們盡全力時感受到的快樂
I think one of the reasons why these lessons are unteachable is because they’re too
broad. They have to be applied in context.
A number of the ones that you laid out contradict each other. Like spend more time with your parents and you know don’t work so hard but you know at the same time you do want to be successful, right?
…it’s like if you went to school and you just studied philosophy for four years you would not know how to live life because you wouldn’t know which philosophical doctrine to apply in which circumstance.
You have to actually live life go through all of the issues to figure out what it is that you want. What’s the context in which some of these things apply and some of them don’t……that said, I would argue that **once you figure it out for yourself, you can kind of carve these variations on these maxims that apply to you and then you’ll have a specific experience that helps you remember it and actually execute on it**. And you can also phrase it in a way where it’s not trite anymore.
The lonely chapter describes a time in your life where you’re so developed that you can’t really resonate with your old set of friends, but you’re not yet sufficiently developed that you’ve built a new set of friends……for you to pull away from that, you’re going to have to do stuff usually that makes you more different, more easy to be mocked, and more alone. And the initial sad reality is that on your journey of personal growth, at some point you may need to leave a group of friends behind who aren’t growing at the same pace as you. But the really sad reality is that if you do it a lot, you may have to do this multiple times throughout your life. And it’s not a value judgment about who’s better or who’s worse. It’s just a stark reality of what happens when you start to make changes in your life.
If you learn rapidly, you can win no matter what happens with the technology. And what are those three skills?
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The only creative journey I seem to go on is the ten-foot commute from the back door of my house to the studio in my garage.
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Creative life is not linear. It’s not a straight line from point A to point B. It’s more like a loop, or a spiral, in which you keep coming back to a new starting point after every project.
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Daily practice – a repeatable way of working that insulates them from success, failure, and the chaos of the outside world.
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When the sun goes down and you back on the day, go easy on yourself.
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Job titles…will make you feel like you need to work in a way that befits the title, not the way that fits the actual work.
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If you share work online…increase the time between your sharing and receiving feedback.
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If you’re bummed out and hating your work, pick somebody special in your life and make something for them.
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“What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person.” — Jorge Luis Borges
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Everything you need to make extraordinary art can be found in your everyday life.
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The world doesn’t necessarily need more great artists. It needs more decent human beings.
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WHEN IN DOUBT, TIDY UP.
Note that it says “when in doubt”, not “always.” Tidying up is for when I’m stalled out or stuck.
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Art is also made out of what is ugly or repulsive to us.
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一旦自滿，就不會進步
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這是一件我所認同的事情，那就勇往直前放手去做吧
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存錢對我來說並不重要，重要的是在法國這段時間，我要如何投資自己的料理廚藝
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我跑片法國各地，去最好的餐廳，點最好的料理，詳細記錄心得及過程中延伸的靈感
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我催眠自己去了解法式美味的意義，完全不以固有的成見、個人的角度批評任何一種料理，發自內心地全然接收
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成功的背後只有堅持，沒有僥倖
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主廚所調製的醬汁對我而言可能太鹹了，但我壓制住自己感官 太鹹 的反應，反而不斷自我催眠，記住了，這才是對的味道
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在法國，餐廳經營的所有事物都以主廚和料理為中心，主廚是一家店的靈魂，主廚的特質會影響一家店的風味與風格，也決定了餐廳的成功與否
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我知道我的離開，並不是因為我在感官花園已經學夠了，正是因為不夠，所以我要試探其他的可能
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這裡資源匱乏，幾乎什麼都沒有，但正因如此，我才能好好地重新思考料理之於我的意義
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要改餐廳的名字很容易，最大的挑戰是 管理。……我執意大刀闊斧進行改革。什麼是對的，什麼是錯的，什麼東西保留，什麼東西要改，我心中有一把尺，有一張清晰的藍圖，旁人很難插手。
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當你一個人作夢時，那就只會是一個夢；但是當大家一起做夢，夢想就會成真
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技巧如同房屋的地基一樣重要…但是如果過度強調技巧，就容易流於匠氣……廚藝的真正價值不在於食材的價值，而是要做出料理的深度…提升到視馬鈴薯特性予以不同烹調方式的 藝
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技巧學會後，如何發揮，如何創立自我的風格，才是成敗的關鍵
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現在我手邊有蘆筍，心底很自然地會根據食材特性與當下環境，並發出最直接的靈感。這個最原始的靈感，就是Honesty
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當客人吃下的第一口，剛好是一盤料理中最精華的部分時，那麼這道菜色的擺置方式就是成功的。為什麼呢?客人用餐，永遠最記得第一口吃下去的感覺，這關對整頓飯、餐廳廚師的印象
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料理所要表現的是生活的態度，而非華而不實的裝飾。因此，只要跟著心底的感覺走，就是回到最初的Honesty
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彈性，就是精準且圓融，對周遭事情要能伸能縮
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我認為最極致的服務並不是提供一個機械式的標準流程，而是客製化，以及我一直強調的細節…我希望我的合作夥伴都能夠有自己的想法，各自能夠獨立思考與執行，這是我挑選合作人才的最重要的角度與標準
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當我覺得已經可以把一到菜做到完美的時候，也就是我放手的時候。唯有一再挑戰，不斷前進，才不會被固定在一個框架裡
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初心成就了一種溫柔地提醒，使我能享受的不只是那份成果，而是享受自己全心投入其中的過程
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損益表：簡單來說就是看到底有沒有賺錢
資產負債表：就是看賺錢的效率跟效能高不高
金流量表：它等於揭示整個賺錢最後的結果
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中國人講「量入為出」、「開源節流」，都把開源跟量入放在前面，開源跟量入講的就是「收入」，所以怎麼樣關注你的收入，事實上才是最重要的一塊。
這三者當中的領頭羊不是費用，不是成本，而是「收入、收入、收入」
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收入預算不確定，你就沒有編，但是費用預算你確定了，所以編得鉅細彌遺…淨利怎麼估算？
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如果沒有辦法持續的話，那基本上就不是好收入
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收入＝商品Ｘ通路Ｘ流量Ｘ轉換率Ｘ客單價Ｘ復購率
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砍成本和費用，要砍脂肪，不要砍到肌肉
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「先生產再銷售」，最怕的就是「埋頭苦幹」，也就是一但一頭栽進生產的環節裡面，就沒有花太多心思在銷售環境的變動上面
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公司是用扣除費用的所得淨額納稅，但是個人卻用所得總額來納稅
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「淨資產或淨值」對公司或者是個人而言，才是真正「財富管理」的終極目標
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要推薦最重要的財務分析KPI…總資產報酬率
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好的商品去做生意，最好是「高頻高需」
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只要手邊有足夠充分的現金，就有活下去的本錢，和足夠應對未來的資源
Start date: October 18, 2025
End date: October 29, 2025
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There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
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Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight.
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The awakening artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others…The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
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It knows it has distracted us with a cheap, easy fix and kept us from doing our work……principle applies to drugs, shopping, masturbation, TV, gossip, alcohol, and the consumption of all products containing fat, sugar, salt, or chocolate.
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Maybe it’s easier to endow our partner with the power that we in fact possess but are afraid to act upon.
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Resistance also told me I shouldn’t seek to instruct, or put myself forward as a purveyor of wisdom; that this was vain, egotistical, possibly even corrupt, and that it would work harm to me in the end. That scared me. It made a lot of sense.
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. I was developing symptoms. As soon as I sat down and began, I was okay.
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These are not easy questions: Who am I? Why am I here?……We know what the clan is; we know how to fit into the band and the tribe. What we don’t know is how to be alone. We don’t know how to be free individuals.
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Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
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Friends sometimes ask, “Don’t you get lonely sitting by yourself all day?” At first it seemed odd to hear myself answer No. Then I realized that I was not alone; I was in the book; I was with the characters. I was with my Self.
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What I feel and say and do that night will not be coming from any disowned or unresolved part of me, any part corrupted by Resistance.
I go to sleep content, but my final thought is of Resistance. I will wake up with it tomorrow. Already I am steeling myself.
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All of us pros in one are
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The amateur, on the other hand, overidentifies with his avocation, his artistic aspiration…he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure. The amateur takes it so seriously it paralyzes him.
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How does he pursue his calling? One, he doesn’t show up every day. Two, he doesn’t show up no matter what. Three, he doesn’t stay on the job all day.
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That was when I realized I had become a pro. I had not yet had a success. But I had had a real failure.
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The more you love your art/calling/enterprise, the more important its accomplishment is to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
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Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. It knows we can’t sustain that level of intensity. We will hit the wall. We will crash.
Note: the hit and crash reminds me
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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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A professional schools herself to stand apart from her performance, even as she gives herself to it heart and soul…we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor.
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She knows she can only be a professional at one thing. She brings in other pros and treats them with respect.
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YOU, INC……If we think of ourselves as a corporation, it gives us a healthy distance on ourselves.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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I had one novel nine-tenths of the way through and another at ninety-nine hundredths before I threw them in the trash. I couldn’t finish em. I didn’t have the guts.
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“Start the next one today.”
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More than make it great, make it live.
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The Ego is the part of the psyche that believes in material existence.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal image we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
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In the end the question can only be answered by action. Do it or don’t do it.
Start date: November 2, 2025
End date: November 5, 2025
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開始明白夢想是什麼，就是找一種快樂又簡單的方式去生活…走在自己喜歡的路上
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獨自旅行第一件事情，就是要學會跟自己做朋友
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不要以為別人依賴著你，就非心不甘情不願付出不可，不要以為自己多厲害，非要改變別人的選擇不可，我們都是其他人路上的過客
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我是一個人，卻也從未真正一個人，學著在陌生人群中歡笑，卻也明白那種笑容有種久違的陌生
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流浪根本不需要學習，在路上自己就會為夢想找到出路
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家也只是一個港口，不過是讓你可以停泊比較久的港口
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在不同的港口間，找一個屬於自己的家
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只要背起背包去認識陌生旅人，一樣可以從不同的旅人身上去了解世界
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遇到不合適的旅伴就當是修行，好相處的旅伴就當作是天上掉下來的禮物
Start date: July 4, 2025
End date: July 13, 2025
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She’s a woman that says “I’m gonna” before she can, “I would” before she could, and “I’ll be there” before she’s invited.
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Life’s hard. Shit happens to us. We make shit happen. To me, it was inevitable that I was staying the entire year because I’d shaken on it. I’d made a voluntary obligation with myself that there was “no goin back.”
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less impressed, more involved.
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We have to prepare to have freedom. We have to do the work to then do the job. We have to prepare for the job so we can be free to do the work. Knowing my man does not mean I know Spanish.
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We are performing in real time, where the approach is the destination, and there is no goal line because we are never finished.
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while I was still finding my balance with it, I wasn’t self-assured enough to share it with anyone else, especially my own mother.
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They are not trying to win arguments of right or wrong. They are trying to understand each other. That’s different.
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I felt like I was making B’s in all five. By shutting down the production company and the music label, I eliminated two of my five commitments with plans to make A’s in the other three.
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Those roles and stories I was looking for? The ones that would compete with the life I was livin? They weren’t coming my way, and again, I wasn’t sleeping well with the ones that were. It was time to make a change, to pivot, to make a new commitment.
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We made Dallas Buyers Club for 4.9 million dollars in twenty-five days. We did not ask permission. We did not flinch. We took the hill. I got down to 135.
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“Afraid of what?” “…Of losing myself,” I said.
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I loved performing. I loved creating. I loved getting lost in a character, then found.
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I haven’t made all A’s in the art of livin, but I give a damn, and I’ll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.