“A priority is something you are willing to give up almost everything for in order to make sure it stays alive. And if you think you have 27 of those, you’re nuts.”
-Merlin Mann
Month: April 2010
What is important?
“Is the thing you claim that is really important, really important? Because if a lot of people actually looked at where their time and attention went, the parts that they do have control over, it would like the most important thing in their life is Facebook.”
– Merlin Mann
What I’m thinking about
Happiness is not merely a feeling.
I’m also still reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin. Godin believes that the new economy values artists. He says, “Art is unique, new, and challenging to the status quo. It’s not decoration, it’s something that causes change.”
He also says, “Most of all, art involves labor. Not the labor of lifting a brush or typing a sentence, but the emotional labor of doing something difficult, taking a risk and extending yourself.” He is not talking merely about making a painting or writing a book. Art can be done wherever you are, even in a cubicle.