When you appreciate them, tell them. If you love them, let them know. As often as you can. --- [[All the best ideas come out of the process]]. >There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. >—Martha Graham >It is the landscape of your own strengths that matters. And you can set your own, completely human pace through it. —Venkatesh Rao, [The Calculus of Grit](http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/08/19/the-calculus-of-grit/) >The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible. >—Lewis Hyde, The Gift Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. (Rumi) Take the [[next right action]]. ### Writing When you sit down to write, trust that you already know what you need to know. >You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my chair if I had read it six months ago (or a week ago, or however fast you write)? If you have figured out something that made you ecstatic, this is what you should write. And you do not dumb it down, because you were not stupid six months ago, you just knew less. You also write with as much useful detail and beauty as you can muster, because that is what you would have wanted. >—[Henrik Karlsson](https://escapingflatland.substack.com/p/search-query) ## Also see [[When you're low]], [[Oblique strategies]], [[key ideas]], [[favorite problems]] ## Elsewhere - [List of practices](https://socialarts.notion.site/List-Of-Practices-f636e2c34c3a4a04a14fbde3170b6588) via [Serj Hunt](https://ruliad.substack.com/p/can-we-measure-wisdom-verveake-style)