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If it was good enough, you could just keep at it, it would still work. If that’s the case, there’d be no reason to change. Especially, there’d be no reason to undergo the ego-shredding life-collapsing change of dissolving your old mind and growing a new one.
The Only Thing to Do
Without clarity and purpose, pursuing something because it is good is not good enough to make a high level of contribution.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
How the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Is Different than the 2017 Eclipse
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Play seems childish and even transgressive to most, and so they miss a major life trick. To be playful is to live true to who you are as a human.
Play is how we express our acceptance of uncertainty.
Life is uncertain. Play aligns our actions with this lack of knowing.
Play is how we express our acceptance of uncertainty.
Life is uncertain. Play aligns our actions with this lack of knowing.
Eight ways to explore your dark side (and tap into insane energy)
The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
If you only do what the majority considers ‘reasonable,’ you’re unlikely to be tapping into your ‘dark side.’
Eight ways to explore your dark side (and tap into insane energy)
But for me, as a person for whom narrow focus is against my instincts, the most remarkable thing about it is how rich it feels. My life these days is small and boring. I bicycle across the same fields every day, I notice how the wind turbines turn to face the wind, I rarely travel, and I spend my spare time staring at a text document. Annie Dillard... See more