Quotes About Exploration

Always take jobs for which you are not qualified; that way you will inevitably learn something.

the importance of creating large, uninterrupted blocks of time, during which your mind can wander, ponder, and find the signal amidst the noise. If you're lucky, it might even create a signal, or connect two signals (core ideas) that have never shaken hands before.

Let's come up with as many ideas as possible, and then put them under scrutiny, and basically try to kill them off, and if they were unkillable, then we'd keep going with them.

Throw it all up on the wall and see what sticks.

Es esencial perderse y cambiar de planes de vez en cuando. Es una fuente de creatividad y perspectiva. El peligro de los esquemas, los ayudantes capaces y la planificación es que puedes acabar viviendo la vida como si estuviera planeada. Y si haces eso, es posible que tu potencial no consiga superar tus expectativas.»

while the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people's heads to unearth riches.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

yo decidí darle la vuelta a ese plan y viajar siendo muy joven,

It's good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone's going that way, you go this other way. You're gonna stumble, but you're also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with. . . .

I don't like work," says Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself." Marlow

Jan Kounen's "Ayahuasca Visions" on YouTube.

But," you might ask, "what about a first, like colonizing Mars?" There are still recipes. Look

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees, but that's just the beginning.

When you're earlier in your career, I think the best strategy is to just say 'yes' to everything. Every little gig. You just never know what are the lottery tickets.

lo peor que puede pasar es que acabe llevando una mochila y un saco de dormir

In this way, quitting should never be seen as the end of something grudging and unpleasant. Rather, it's a vital step in beginning something new and wonderful.

Don't worry about what you're going to do with the rest of your life. Just find a profitable and interesting use for the next three to five years.

you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.' . . .

far from being a reason not to travel and seek adventure, children are perhaps the best reason of all to do both.

what if I asked 100+ brilliant people the very questions I want to answer for myself? Or somehow got them to guide me in the right direction?

The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.

Timothy Ferriss

camino no se acaba nunca y que nadie ha conseguido culminarlo.»

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I