Excellent Life Advice from Kevin Kelley

Snippets from a book long awaited

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Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture.

His new book is sprinkled with profound wisdom. Here are the best bits

🚀 Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.

✅ Prototype your life. Try stuff instead of making grand plans.

🎨 Don’t measure your life with someone else’s ruler.

🧠 When someone tells you what ticks them off they are telling you what makes them tick.

❤️ Taking a break is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

⚡️A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.

🏆Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

📚 A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

🔔 The best way to get to yes in a negotiation is to truly understand what yes means for the other party.

🚨Don’t be the best. Be the only.

💡Forgiveness is accepting the apology you will never get.

🙏 If you can’t tell what you desperately need it’s probably sleep.

✅ Your growth as a mature being is measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have.

🎉 Learn how to be alone without being lonely. Solitude is essential for creativity.

🚀 When you don’t know how much to pay someone for a particular task ask them, “What would be fair?” and their answer usually is.

💡A wise man said: Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?” At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?” At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?”

🚨Make “explaining the problem” part of your troubleshooting process.

❤️ When you are looking for a job, remember that somewhere an employer is desperately hunting for someone like you especially if you are unconventional. Your real job is to make that match happen and it is worth whatever time it takes.

💙 A superpower worth cultivating is learning from people you don’t like. It is called “humility.” This is the courage to let dumb, stupid, hateful, crazy, mean people teach you something because despite their character flaws they each know something you don’t.

🧠 To be interesting just tell your own story with uncommon honesty.

🤝 Be extremely stingy in making promises because you must be generous in keeping them.

🤞You choose to be lucky by believing that any setbacks are just temporary.

📿Your best teacher is your last mistake.

😼Your 20s are the perfect time to do a few things that are unusual, weird, bold, risky, unexplainable, crazy, unprofitable, and look nothing like “success.” For the rest of your life these experiences will serve as your muse.

⚡️Embrace pronoia which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.

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