How to design a good life
There has also been so much unforeseen beauty when I embrace the path of lesser resistance and remain curious and engaged with the world around me rather than feeling guilty I can’t seem to conjure my former decisiveness the majority of self-help advice favours. Maybe living with the end of the story in mind inhibits us from really experiencing lif... See more
Haley Nahman • #217: Following your (non-specific) dreams
It was the idea of a “pathless path,” something I found in David Whyte’s book The Three Marriages. To Whyte, a pathless path is a paradox: “we cannot even see it is there, and we do not recognize it.”1 To me, the pathless path was a mantra to reassure myself I would be okay. After spending the first 32 years of my life always having a plan, this k
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The core insight
The path to a life that fits is not through executing a grand, predefined vision, but through a process of "unfolding." This means continuously experimenting and iterating with your present context. By treating your assumptions as testable hypotheses and paying close attention to the feedback you receive, you bake information from ... See more
The path to a life that fits is not through executing a grand, predefined vision, but through a process of "unfolding." This means continuously experimenting and iterating with your present context. By treating your assumptions as testable hypotheses and paying close attention to the feedback you receive, you bake information from ... See more