Time Capsule #71
On success, personality, and standards.
Welcome to the Time Capsule — a weekly newsletter that discusses the practicalities of life and explores the wisdom, ideas, and events of the past to help you build a better future.
💭 Quote of the Week
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
✏️ Rain by Raymond Carver
Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.
Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.
Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
📸 Photo of the Week
📖 Book of the Week — Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
One of Charles Dickens most popular novels, Great Expectations is the story of an orphan with a dream. The novel is well known for its powerful imagery — through the novel Dickens is able to discuss many themes such as ambition and the pursuit of money, social class, moral regeneration, and redemption through love.
💡 Food for Thought
Are you living up to your own standards?
🔭 Sunday Best
Carl Jung and The Achievement of Personality — via the anthologia blog
The achievement of personality means nothing less than the optimum development of the whole individual human being. It is impossible to foresee the endless variety of conditions that have to be fulfilled. A whole lifetime, in all its biological, social, and spiritual aspects, is needed. Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.
What We Can Learn from Babies: Experimentation, Failure & Creative Genius — by Jocelyn Glei
As we get older, our ways of thinking harden, and we start making decisions based on what we know works. Creatives are the great exception. […] Without a certain comfort level with ambiguity – an uncertain outcome – we would never experiment. If we never experimented, we would never make mistakes. And if we never made mistakes, we would never learn anything.
The Story of Paul: The Apostle to the Gentiles — a mini-documentary by Bible Unbound
See ya next week!
AT