By a virtuous cycle, I mean being able to do work that you enjoy that naturally leads to opportunities and people that help make your life better.

“money is something we choose to trade our life energy for,” it

In addition, once you are on the pathless path, defining your own constraints and fixed points is not a choice, it’s essential to thriving on your journey.

I suggest people take a more active approach to find what I call “path experts.” These are people ahead of you on a path you might be interested in taking. It could be someone who left a job like yours or someone exploring a way of living that fascinates you. Nine times out of ten these people will be enthusiastic about connecting with you because

Eleanor Roosevelt once argued that “when you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”⁠

The ease of having an ambition is that it can be explained to others; the very disease of ambition is that it can be so easily explained to others. – David Whyte

Making life changes requires overcoming the discomfort of not knowing what will happen. Facing uncertainty, we make long mental lists of things that might go wrong and use these as the reasons why we must stay on our current path. Learning to have a healthy distrust of this impulse and knowing that even if things go wrong, we might discover things

Are you a worker? If you are not a worker, then who are you? Given who you are, what life is sufficient?

“How do you design a life that doesn’t put work first?”