how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
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how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
Aspirational pursuits go hand in hand with the pathless path because they can appear incomprehensible to others and even yourself, sometimes for years. Callard argues that the aspirant’s understanding of the value of their pursuits “is characterized by a distinctive kind of vagueness, one she experiences as defective and in need of remedy.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Callard defines aspiration as the slow process of “trying on the values that we hope one day to possess.”69 This is in contrast to an ambitious journey where we already know what we value.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
I’ve always thought of a virtue as compressed earned wisdom baked into a word that I repeat. I was thinking in large aspirational terms before (kairos, synthesis, patience, etc.) but now I’m thinking about it through “negative” virtues. Trying to take note of all the tiny moments throughout the day where I don’t live up to my fullest self (little
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