commitment is the only secret knowledge
Knowing how values hang together and when to pursue things under which circumstances and to what degree—and then developing the will to do so—is the work of a lifetime.
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
On our run I tell J: the unhealthy version of myself used to abandon things just because they got painful or inconvenient. The healthy part of me finds joyfulness in persisting in something for a very long time. In hindsight it sounds really obvious but it genuinely eluded me for a really long time: the mark of overall healthiness in spirit is bein... See more