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“All the days that you get to have are big.”

Plus a farewell to the Nobel Prize winner who ranked last of 250 in school biology

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Leonie Mercedes
October 10, 2025

Good morning, lovelies. Here’s your three-part nudge for the day:

a prompt

Write on the following for 5–10 minutes:

Is there something you want to do – start that creative project, read that book, finish that life admin – that you’re feeling resistance to? How could you make doing that thing more attractive?

a thought

“Getting married isn’t the biggest day of your life. All the days that you get to have are big.” – Self Esteem, I Do This All The Time

farewell

John Gurdon, biologist (1933–2025)

“Some years ago, John Gurdon was explaining how he had come to have a research institute named after him while still very much alive. He said it was because he was the oldest of the group of scientists who had founded the institute, and there had been a reasonable expectation that it wouldn’t be named after a living person for too long.

“‘It’s just one respect in which I have failed to live up to expectations,’ he concluded with a wry smile.’”

Thanks for coming, dear makers and shakers. See you tomorrow ☕