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Quote: Known and Loved
Ideas: Flourishing, Phone, and Recovery
Article: 10 Learnings on Life
Tweet: Hollywood Carpentry
Question: Who are You Becoming?
Quote
Tim Keller on being known and loved:
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
RIP to Tim Keller who passed away a few weeks ago. One of the greatest thinkers of this generation. Personally, one of my favorite authors.
Ideas From Me
I.
We all want to flourish in life but many of us are addicted to things that prevent it and resistant to things that provide it.
Prevents Flourishing:
• Too much alcohol
• Too much TV
• Poor sleep
• Bad diet
Provides Flourishing:
• Healthy diet
• Connection
• Purpose
• Exercise
II.
Do more things that make you forget about your phone.
III.
Some of our biggest breakthroughs come through a break.
• Rest
• Relax
• Recover
• Recharge
Like a pit stop in car racing, you might feel like you're getting passed up while you're resting, but your break improves your performance.
If your only time to recover is during weekends and vacations, you’re doing it wrong.
You have to build a DAILY routine for self-care.
Article
10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings from Maria Popova, The Marginalian
“Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It’s so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life’s greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.”
Such a powerful list here.
1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.
2. Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone.
3. Be generous.
4. Build pockets of stillness into your life.
5. When people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them.
6. Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.
7. “Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.”
8. Seek out what magnifies your spirit.
9. Don’t be afraid to be an idealist.
10. Don’t just resist cynicism — fight it actively.
Read the article to dive in to each one more.
Tweet
Interesting, short story here about Harrison Ford becoming a carpenter in Hollywood while trying to make it as an actor.
Before he was Han Solo or Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.
In 1964, Ford moved to Hollywood to become an actor.
“But I arrived on a metaphoric bus full of people who had the same ambition,” he said.
So he came up with this plan to prevail over the competition:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer)
7:15 PM • May 28, 2023
Question
Who are you becoming?
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Make it a great weekend.
Much love,
Beau Burns
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