One-liners worth keeping — the spines of longer thoughts, distilled until they can stand alone. The home page rotates them one at a time; this page is the full collection, grouped by theme as it grows.
“Imposter syndrome is your body's response to your inability to possess success. The emotions come later. They are not the syndrome.”
“Imposter syndrome is a distraction, like so many other things, from the activities that lead to continued success.”
“Register your wins, however small. It is healthy, because joy is not a small thing. It is good, because a life you don't mark is a life you can't quite claim.”
“I used to be fascinated by what people do with their time. Now I want to know what they're being distracted from.”
“Which is more valuable: avoiding distractions, or doing The Thing?”
“A friction-filled activity yields more lasting results; a frictionless one reaches more people. That isn't a paradox — it's a price.”
“The trick is to teach. The trick is to treat learning as living — not as something separate, a burden you have to bear, and then later bear again as you apply it to your living.”
“The knowledge you think you want to gain already exists in the world. Don't rely on other things or people to distill the knowledge you want from the knowledge available to you.”
The collection is young. New groupings will form as aphorisms land in new territory.