Ideas I'll remember from Agnes Callard - Aspiration

Callard argues that we come to care about something new by doing/working/practicing caring about them, not merely by deciding to care about it. Deciding to care about classical music doesn’t make you actually love it. Instead, we might take a class on it, or go to the symphony, or listen to it often. “The explanation of how we come to value, or to

Thedifference between aspiration, ambition, and self-cultivation. Aspirational pursuits combine the property of being large in scale with that of being directed at change in oneself. Ambition has the former but not the latter. Self-cultivation, has the latter but not the former.