Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable. The first step of that journey is understanding where we are, what we're up against, and where we need to go. I think we can best do that by …
Change always comes with a price.
The best kind of conflict offers a chance for both destruction and construction, which would have a fortifying effect against the antagonistic forces.
Change is the measuring unit of conflict.
In a way, stories are a series of conflict - questions presented and answered. Some deal with external forces and some with internal forces.
If a character cares deeply about something, a storyteller must explain the emotional constitution that allows the character to have these opinions - formally known as exposition.
I like the sense of one lighted room in the house while all the rest of the house, and the world outside, is in darkness. Just one lamp falling on my paper; it gives a concentration, an intimacy. What bad mediums letter are; you will read this in daylight, and …
The trauma is not the event itself. The trauma is often in the experience of the event without an empathic witness.
And that's why Oprah is the consummate empathic witness - she does not just give meaning to the story, she also acknowledges the person and event, which causes …
stay
i whispered
as you
shut the door behind you
मशरूफ रहने का अंदाज तुम्हे तन्हा ना कर दे ग़ालिब, रिश्ते फुर्सत के नहीं, तवज्जो के मोहताज होते हैं...!!
When will you realize? The more you take, the less you have.
If you are in this room, you need to deliver outsized success.
To do that, you will need to allocate resources ahead of conventional wisdom.
Conventional wisdom will generate conventional success and that won’t allow you to stay in this room.
You need to have courage and be bold.
And …
The internet can be both a salve and an addiction, a way to block out pain (the salve) while simultaneously creating it (the addiction). When the cyber drug wears of you feel worse, not better.
The ability to regulate one's feelings without self medicating, whether that medication comes in the form of substances, defence affairs, or the internet.
The first step is to recognize that distraction starts from within.
The idea is to make tasks more enjoyable.
Nir Eyal