Saved by Stuart Evans
Not Disappointing Myself
- And Maybe You’re Trying to Do Two Things at Once The first thing is making exactly what you want, for you. And the second thing is making something for those you seek to connect and change. Pursuing either is fine. Pursuing both is a recipe for unhappiness, because what you’re actually doing is insisting that other people want what you want and see
Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
If you continue to resist your genuine impulses, you’ll become slowly aware that what you’re doing to make a living is turning you into the walking dead.
Martha Beck • The Way of Integrity: Finding the path to your true self
The numbness I felt was the result of continuously choosing to ride the gondola in the direction of someone else’s definition of success, moving further and further from my own intuition of a life well lived. When we feel internal turmoil, it’s a signal from our body to rethink our assumptions. While it’s natural to turn to everyone else — anyone e... See more
Cissy Hu • A lifetime of should-ing
Key #3. Prioritize Impact Over Image “When I quit The New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again,” said author Anna Quindlen. “But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Because if your success is not on your
... See moreAnne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Our culture defines “success” as rising through bureaucracies, so these people didn’t understand why they’d suddenly gone from high performance to crashing and burning. But from my perspective, these “inexplicable” failures made obvious sense: Edgar loved literature, not running a magazine. Chloe loved being out in the woods alone, not sitting arou
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