Fortuna fortes adiuvat (Luck helps the brave ones).

may 1 2022 ∞
may 1 2022 +

shrinkingblonde:

Ever wonder what your life would be like if you lived up to your full potential? Would your body be healthier? Your skin clearer? Bank account bigger? I think about these things all the time, and, judging by a previous post, you guys do too. Let’s try it out! Obviously we aren’t going to come close to perfect with this – we’re all humans with good days and bad days and in-between days. But let’s try together to see what would happen if we pushed ourselves. I don’t ever want anyone to feel pressured to stick to this every day (I sure as hell won’t), but it’s worth a shot, right? Let’s get to it!

EVERY MORNING

  • Stretch. First thing. Really give your body enough time to wake up. Touch your toes. Roll out your shoulders. Do not hit sn...
jan 2 2022 ∞
jan 2 2022 +

Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise.

You cannot live alone on the fantasies you feed to your mind, eventually you have to touch your life for real, assess and analyze your habits, understand your character, try not to hate yourself for your character as it was shaped when you were very young by circumstances outside of you, and begin learning how to cope with your character, how to build habits that work for you, finish small projects, finish big projects, expose yourself to more uncomfortable situations, assess why you want to leave that friendship before you leave it, raise your anxiety levels on purpose, so that you can grow, raise your work load on purpose, so that you can grow, so that you can build resilience, so that your life expands, and can be experienced by you in full and in reality.

I must change my life so that I can live ... — Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964...

nov 11 2021 ∞
nov 11 2021 +

READ:

  • lifetimes nabokov pnin —
  • filming close: naomi kawase —
  • https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/02...
  • an interview with naomi kawase —
  • feud: nabokov-edmund wilson —
  • letters: the strange case of nabokov and wilson —
  • the feud —
  • Why James Joyce had to leave Dublin to find himself —
  • James Joyce, the emigrant who left Dublin in body but not in mind —
  • The Trieste of James Joyce —
  • How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy —
  • James Joyce’s Odyssey —
  • Notoriously Difficult-to-Read "Ulysses" Actually Quite Simple to Understand, Says UB Joyce Scholar —
  • the woman who made van gogh —
apr 13 2022 ∞
aug 21 2022 +

non fiction

  • atomic habits: an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones by james clear
  • can't hurt me: master your mind and defy the odds by david goggins
  • how to break up with your phone: the 30-day plan to take back your life by catherine price
  • why we sleep: the new science of sleep by matthew walker
  • letters to a law student by nicholas j. mcbride
  • making your case: the art of persuading judges by antonin scalia
  • of other worlds by c. s. lewis
  • man's search for meaning by viktor e. frankl
  • what i talk about when i talk about running by haruki murakami
  • a mind for numbers: how to excel at math ...
jan 10 2022 ∞
sep 20 2022 +

ANIME

  • シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン (serial experiments lain) - 8/13
  • great pretender - 14/23
  • 僕のヒーローアカデミア4 (boku no hero academia 4) - 19/25
  • BNA ビー・エヌ・エー (BNA) - 2/12
  • 七つの大罪 憤怒の審判 (nanatsu no taizai: fundo no shinpan) - 16/24
  • 富豪刑事 balance:UNLIMITED (fugou keiji: balance:UNLIMITED) - 2/11
  • 賭ケグルイ×× (kakegurui xx) - 1/12

TV SHOWS

  • our planet (ep.01/08)
  • selling sunset (S1; ep.02/08)
  • suits (S2 - ep.10/16 ; S2/S9)

FILMS

feb 16 2022 ∞
may 7 2022 +