i routinely write “no hurry, no pause” at the top of my notebooks as a daily reminder.
you can get 95% of the results you want by calmly putting one foot in front of the other.
one former navy seal friend once texted me a principle used in their training: “slow is smooth. smooth is fast.”
perhaps i’m just getting old, but my definition of luxury has changed over time. now, it’s not about owning a lot of stuff. luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
no hurry, no pause.
One thing I’ve had to unlearn is self sacrifice for its own sake
No one cares or notices if I save them “the best fork” because that’s a gift I made up in my head
You can fill your life with a million sacrifices no one asked you to make, or you can use your favorite fork
While errbody giving they "this is Cole payin homage to _____" takes, pleeeaaassseee do not forget to mention the Pastor-Troy-No-More-Play-In-GA-Vica-Versa flow on "Quik Trip" (or the Pastor adlibs on "I Love Her Again")
This shit the mf *definition* of "magnum opus"
#TheFallOff
I’m sorry that was your experience, but as someone who loves movies. It made the experience of watching a move so much more than just pressing play. We got dressed, drove to blockbuster & browsed the aisles together or separately picking our own movies. Hoping the movie you wanted was in stock(having a backup in mind) Then we met at the snack section & grabbed popcorn & Buncha Crunch & gummy bears. We stopped & grabbed takeout on the way home & picked whose movie to watch first. It was an experience that has been minimized to browsing Netflix for 25 minutes and still not knowing what to watch, till eventually settling for watching the same show/movie you’ve seen 100x just so you can scroll on your phone 2/3 of the time.
The thing I didn't really think about until I entered industry is how often the transport loads of a structure is actually more severe than the actual use case
A very basic example: A fridge
All it does is stand in one spot
But engineers have to structurally analyze all of the components for when it gets leaned forward to load onto a truck, when it experiences vibrations as the truck drives on the highway, engineers have to make sure the circuitry can handle the decelerations if the truck brakes hard, etc etc
We take for granted how much thought gets put into items that we use everyday
“You think I would just grind my feet into someone else’s couch? Come on I don’t just do things just to do them. I got a little more sense than that…
…yeah I remember grinding my feet into Eddie’s couch.”