This is not to say you need to do work you love. It all depends on what work means to you and what your other values are. Doing work you love and being happy are not necessarily the same thing. It does mean you need a great deal of self-knowledge and self-honesty

Don’t limit your notion of things you hate to work. You probably have habits and relationships and other things you hate. Quit those too. There are a million reasons to laugh at the advice. I doubt any of them will improve your life after the short-lived

Quit as soon as possible. Exit. Keep exiting until you’re not doing stuff you hate.

When the time is right and the idea is ripe you’ll know.

The most profound improvements in the world are typically born out of many years of following the initial identification of a problem deep down the rabbit hole. Those who see something they don’t like and jump to do something come and go, as do the effects of their efforts. Those who internalize the problem – let it steep, let it alter the way they

When you create you’ve got to pick what’s most important and leave aside many other valuable things. It’s vulnerable. What if people blame you for leaving them out? They will. But if you attempt to include everything you’ll never create anything.

Staying means you get to play the role of two cheap, easy archetypes with quick rewards: the critic and the martyr.

Our culture is one that provides social rewards for any kind of action. If you say you’re doing something to alleviate poverty, people congratulate you no matter how stupid or useless or even counter-productive your efforts might be. Volunteering is deemed noble and effective, whether or not it’s either of these things. Obsession with nonprofits an

Exit means giving up the cheap benefits of the critic and the martyr and adding the cost of social approbation.