Ideas I'll remember from Agnes Callard - Aspiration
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Ideas I'll remember from Agnes Callard - Aspiration
We can be the ones overwhelming our own intrinsic motives. We can easily become entranced by the desire to impress, to be admired, or to please others quite apart from whether the accomplishments we’re undertaking are actually meaningful to us.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
Be ambitious about the process, not just the outcome. (To use my own hobby as an example, when I bake, I put on some good music, I take my time, I eat too much batter. That way, if the recipe implodes–like when I accidentally mixed up powdered sugar and flour–the whole thing isn’t a wash.)
Let more than one thing hold your ambition, or meaning. (Th... See more
Let more than one thing hold your ambition, or meaning. (Th... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • This Will Change the Way You Think About Ambition
The work is visible in her struggles to sustain interest in the hobby or relationship or career or religion or aesthetic experience that will later become second nature; in her repeated attempts to "get it right," attempts that must be performed without the benefit of knowing exactly what rightness consists in; and, most generally, in the fact that... See more
how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
Raising the aspirations of other people is one of the most beneficial things you can do with your time. At critical moments, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something more important and ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relat
... See moreTyler Cowen • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
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.