No. 532 — July 9th, 2023 — Read on FS — Free Version

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"How you live depends on which seeds you water.”

— Jack Kornfield, Finding Inner Calm

Insight

Two related insights this week:

1.

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”

— Anne Lamott

2.

"Often, our most intense discomfort is what precedes and necessitates thinking in a way we have never conceived of before. That new awareness creates possibilities that would never exist had we not been forced to learn something new."

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think

Tiny Thought

The least effective form of patience is passive.

A person who is passively patient waits for the universe to give them what they think they deserve. Five years from now, they'll still be waiting. Passive patience violates Newton's third law, which states, 'For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.'

No action. No result.

The world isn't indebted to you, and no one is destined to come your way, tap your shoulder, and present you with the golden opportunity you've been waiting for. It doesn't work that way.

The most effective form of patience is active patience.

Active patience implies taking significant steps today to set yourself up for future success. It's about strategically preparing for what lies ahead—saving more than you spend and investing wisely, developing the necessary skills for future job prospects, choosing kindness over cleverness, and so on.

Here is the key lesson: Active patience puts the world on your side. If you go positive and go first, and you do so consistently, the world does a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

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Ray Bradbury on what he does when he gets an idea:

“In the instance of getting an idea, I go act it out on paper. I don’t put it away. I don’t delay. I don’t put off to tomorrow doing what I must do right now to find out what my secret self needs, wants, desires with all its heart and then it speaks and I have enough brains to get out of the way and listen.”

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Cheers,
— Shane

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