You must devote yourself to the cause of your life.
This isn't about lowering our ambitions - it's about elevating them. Trading the superficial for the substantial, rigidity for resilience, and the exhausting pursuit of "crushing it" for the satisfaction of building something meaningful. Because perhaps true success isn't measured in inbox zeros, but in creating a life that doesn't feel like someth... See more
So the only reasonable answer I can give to the question of “How can I do what you are doing?” is this: fully commit to the journey, challenges and all. Once you do, don’t give up. Keep going. Take the search for good work seriously.
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
So I came up with a mantra for future decisions: “Coming alive over getting ahead.” It was a reminder to choose work that lit me up, rather than work that merely serves to earn more money.
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that elud
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