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
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
Identify an area in your life where perfectionism holds you back. How could embracing intentional imperfection help you move forward while still being satisfied with your work? Reflect on a time when you learned from trial and error. How did this metacognitive process contribute to your growth, and how could you apply it more deliberately in the fu
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It’s so embarrassing to try and be someone you’re not. It makes you a tryhard, a poseur, a pseud. The problem, of course, is that when you aspire to be better than you are, there’s no other way to do it except by starting. You’re always faking it at the start, always doing things badly. You’re pretending to appreciate things that you can only dimly... See more
how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
As the philosopher Agnes Callard highlights, ambition is the outcome you want to attain. Aspiration is the person you hope to become.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
This time in life — 20s, college, whatever — feels like a fragile one, where the choices i make Really Matter, and where a lot of what I like about myself is still performative/logic-driven/an-imitation-of-others/conscious. I need help affirming + cementing how i act until it becomes instinct + impulse, and I need help clearing away the distraction
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