Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition

“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.”⁠

A certain amount of destruction is inevitable during a life transition.

"I don't know where I'm going, but I know exactly how to get there."

Helping people live courageously so that they can thrive is one of the most important things in the world. I want to see people live the lives they are capable of, not just the ones they think they are allowed to live.

“People view me as a writer and I am a writer, I'm a productive writer, but I don't start writing until the afternoon. The whole morning is devoted to listening to music and reading and mostly reading books.” What jumped out to me was a comment that signaled how seriously he took this good work: "I did not do this as a career strategy. I didn'

However, rushing to directly monetize your good work can be a mistake. The right approach is to treat the work that feels good as sacred, protecting it as long as possible by making money doing something else. There are many famous stories of people doing this. Whether it be Albert Einstein working at a patent office, the poet Wallace Stevens at an

“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

sense of achievement. But don’t “should” yourself into staying in one of these positions when your heart and soul yearn for more.

once you know this kind of path exists, the right way to find it is to be open to it, to ask lots of questions, and to assume, despite your doubts, that you are already on the right path.