Majicman Notes

Perhaps a better way to think about experience is not as how many times you’ve done a job before, but instead how many times you had to change yourself in order to be successful. Reinventing… Read more

All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good… Read more

THE BEST INTERIORS ADVICE I WOULD GIVE is that juxtaposition and beauty are the key to success. Beauty leads and beauty guides; if you collect beautiful things – and this has nothing to do with… Read more

The funny thing about a picture, thought Woolly, the funny thing about a picture is that while it knows everything that’s happened up until the moment it’s been taken, it knows absotively nothing about what… Read more

The early soloist Sidney Bechet, calls jazz the sound of freedom. “It’s the sounds that emulate [sic] from the emancipated slaves. The newfound freedom that they found in the South of the United States, and… Read more

Akrasia, commonly translated as “weakness of will,” a habit of not listening to what we accept should be heard and a failure to act upon what we know is right. It is because of akrasia… Read more

“TheChristmas tree effect” — the human intuition to add rather than subtract to solve problems Professor Leidy Klotz’s research spans engineering, design, and human behavior, and hammers home an intriguing finding: humans are hardwired to… Read more

If you don’t review the progress, you can’t make adjustments. You can’t learn from mistakes. You can’t get better, and ultimately, you can’t finish. Jon Acuff Finish Read more

Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only. Kevin Kelly Read more

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. Anton Chekhov https://www.gale.com/intl/databases-explored/literature/anton-chekhov Read more