Peter Schroeder on Substack
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Peter Schroeder on Substack
“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you can do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a co
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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow." Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Schopenhauer loved metaphor, and his counsel starts with the example of a mason: The man is “employed on the building of a house” but “may be quite ignorant of its general design.” Because of this arrangement, Schopenhauer suggested, the mason was stuck in the daily details of his work instead of seeing it as part of a grand design. And so it is wi... See more
Arthur C. Brooks • Schopenhauer’s Advice on How to Achieve Great Things
Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
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You may have an ambition to get to the top of a particular peak, but the route requires overcoming a series of difficulties. Climbers call them “problems.” And, as each difficulty is overcome, there are new views of the problems and opportunities that lie ahead. And, if you make it, your ambition evolves. Next time, you will try the northern face o
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