Efforts and Goals and Joy
Why Joy Should Be Your Primary Success Metric in Work and Life
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Writer and programmer Simon Sarris on the value of effort:
"If you make lists of lofty goals, it can be easy to leave them to accumulate, as happens sometimes, into a mountain of to-do's and notes and half-forgotten plans. Dreaming alone is seductive, even a little sweet, since it lacks the pain of trying. So it feels proper to prize attempts more t... See more
"If you make lists of lofty goals, it can be easy to leave them to accumulate, as happens sometimes, into a mountain of to-do's and notes and half-forgotten plans. Dreaming alone is seductive, even a little sweet, since it lacks the pain of trying. So it feels proper to prize attempts more t... See more
success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
Pursuing your ambitions, especially those of any magnitude, can be grueling and hazardous, and produce agonizing failure along the way, but achieving those goals is among life’s most gratifying and thrilling experiences.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
The only reliable ways I've found to maintain this vitality are collecting inspiration and writing. I notice that a certain pressure builds up inside me when I am not writing enough. Writing helps me unearth and resolve the self-sabotaging stories living inside me and helps me regain my creative confidence. Collecting inspiration charges my creativ... See more