Be where you are
Cultivating a strong and enduring sense of self means treating your life like a path. It requires that you do not become too attached to any period of “order” or to any specific route, which usually causes more harm than good and leads to all manner of missed opportunities.
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
Feeling lost and free, I started thinking about my in-between time not as a dead end to escape, but as a space worth exploring. And with that mindset, I quickly became reacquainted with an old friend and ally: curiosity.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Sometimes I think of myself as unambitious these days, mistaking this downshift for stagnancy, which scares me, but I try to remind myself that slowness is not the enemy.
A kind of private tunnel vision that rearranges our reality so that our highs and lows are defined by only the most immediate wins and losses, with everything else rendered irrele