Amie Pollack
@amiepollack
Amie Pollack
the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he'd come for us after we die, and not when we're still living.
Ambition, then and now
But at a minimum, we shouldn’t find our ambitions by accident. If we imagine that we’re no longer in our current pond—that we got fired, or are 16 years old and dreaming about what we to do with our life, or 80 years old and reflecting on what we did—what would we care about then? Are the ladders we spent our time climbing the ladders that we really want to stand at the top of?
We think that we surround ourselves with our interests, but causality often runs the other way: We become interested in what we’re surrounded by.
- Anna Gát
@TheAnnaGat
“In The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron talked about how many people end up in fields adjacent to their real dreams just to feel close to what they truly want. Of course, we can’t always get what we want; the world does not exist to fulfill our desires. But carrying that truth—recognizing where our passions are—is really important.”from Tweet by Anna Gát
- “Beginning with the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, the United States experienced a lapse in ability, will, and imagination that was astonishing for a nation that, two generations earlier, had made nine missions to the moon. For almost a decade after the last Shuttle mission, the nation had not been able to send humans into space. It was f... See more
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