#217: Following your (non-specific) dreams
I’d been diligently executing my mind’s plan for “success” and had made it to my dream graduate program and dream summer internship. Yet these shiny accolades weren’t making me feel the way I expected to feel once I reached them. The strategy of my adolescent ego wasn’t working, and as I began to face that, my life felt like it was falling apart. I... See more
When I was in my twenties, thinking about what to do with my life, nothing (within reach) felt meaningful: I felt alienated, bored, and millennially troubled by every line of work I encountered or knew of. This was a lack of imagination on my side—I’ve known that for a while now. But I had a few experiences recently that made me realize just how ve... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Ethos and imagination
On the pathless path, the goal is not to find a job, make money, build a business, or achieve any other metric. It’s to actively and consciously search for the work that you want to keep doing. This is one of the most important secrets of the pathless path.