"The loser has more in common with the winner than with the person sitting on the sidelines. The winner and the loser each had the courage to try. Both risked embarrassment. Both were willing to face uncertainty. Both were stubborn enough to continue. Success is endurance in disguise. It belongs to the person who can absorb the losses without absorbing the identity of "loser." It's the courage to start — and to stick with it — that is the real separator. Results tend to find the person who stays in the game. The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there."

From James Clear:

Everyone is low in progesterone. Both men and women need it, especially for hair. But we’re bombarded with its antagonist: estrogens.

Wow. Majestic

Poet, playwright, and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal shares the secret of how to find your true self: "Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced." Source: Buch der Freunde (1922)

From James Clear:

Huge pot of stew with beets, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, garlic, lamb, tomato, onion, parsley, dill, and lemon juice

I am celebrating the ice storm in Austin by making borscht. My coworker gave me a recipe. I've never had it before, so I don't know how it compares, but I think it's delicious. I don't know why it isn't more red? I wish I could have my Ukrainians over to eat some and tell me how I did.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

"Praise others. It will bring them peace of mind.

Do not expect others to praise you. It will bring you peace of mind."

- James Clear

I see those sometimes here in Austin.

I wouldn’t give up the experience of her campaign. It taught me a lot about what is “American” by my reckoning, what I identify with, what I like about myself, and what I love about people.

#OTD in 1922
‘Eve’ Illustration by Herbert Paus (1880-1946)
Cover of *Life*, October 12, 1922
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #HerbertPaus #Eve #GardenOfEden #OriginalSin

A screenshot of a shirt preorder with 311 sold

Amber is the color of my energy topatoco.com/collections/...

The Love of Tochecha | Rabbi Angela Buchdahl | Yom Kippur 5786 YouTube video by Central Synagogue

I keep thinking about this and sharing it with individuals I love. It’s a concept that should be taught in basic psychology, parenting or relationship class.
It’s about how adults in some cultures criticize each other in a constructive and loving way. (Because we missed that in our culture.)

I got a phone with a better camera, so I'm going to start posting stuff in here again

My sister has a hair test company called Parsley Pet and goes to a lot of trouble to give people everything they will ever need to understand the report. A lot of times people include the abnormal lab values in the initial order questions and she addresses those too.

Lovely 🥰

Essayist Charles Lamb on generosity: "The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." From James Clear's newsletter

That’s amazing

Wonderful

That is a blue goat

Where the Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan with China over the Khunjerab Pass at 4700m above sea level, one of the highest paved roads in the world.

Thanks for sharing that

👏👏👏👏

The most terrifying thing I’ve seen is right wingers who see Newsom making fun of Trump and don’t get it. It’s pathological.

I can’t eat most types of flour but I sure miss snickerdoodles

All those women sure are scary looking tho

Entrepreneur Will Ahmed on living a well-rounded life:

"Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home."

from James Clear's newsletter

The World's Smartest City Is a Tiny German Village In Etteln, smart doesn’t just mean sensors and software. It means solidarity, shared responsibility and thinking big.

Wow, when a fiber optic rollout excluded 55 residences at the edge of this town because of the cost, the townspeople dug the trenches and laid the cable themselves. It made it possible for people to work from home instead of move away.
reasonstobecheerful.world/etteln-smart...

I wondered what these are. They make me go around when they’re focused on something in my rock path. They’re completely unconcerned I’m there. I have over a dozen different kinds of what I’d call “wasp” here. But at least none are aggressive towards people.

The loop on the hat is right side up "a" which is pretty cool.

Why are the loops on the shirt and hoodie upside down?