Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition

By taking a break and learning to follow their interests, people start to ask new questions, ones that plant the seeds for a much bigger vision of life.

“after you leave home, the old maps — reliable and helpful for so long — no longer work.”⁠

out how to escape the nonsense, exploit the system, or extract as much money from the company as possible.

Looking back, what chunks of time feel satisfying and seem to be more important as time progresses? What am I drawn to do, right now? What am I doing already that feels good? At the end of my life, what will I definitely not regret having done?

“Good work and good education are achieved by visitation and then absence, appearance and disappearance. Most people who exhibit a mastery in a work or a subject have often left it completely for a long period in their lives only to return for another look. Constant busyness has no absence in it, no openness to the arrival of any new season, no bir

How much great work is never started because of people’s dedication to the standard workweek?

“Coming alive over getting ahead.”

The reality is that good work is simple, but hard: it requires self-reflection, trial and error, and having faith in yourself and the world.

“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.”⁠1