The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
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The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
Practice is resistance. It reduces urgency, creates satisfaction, and reminds you that there is more to life than being productive.
Tara McMullin • What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting
But that is not how the mind works. First of all, the mind doesn’t truly care about “success”; it just wants to feel loved and then it mistakenly assumes that that is what “success” will bring. Second, whether or not your life feels “lame” is really a matter of how earnestly you pay attention to the world, rather than how much “success” y
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Efforts and Goals and Joy
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sense of achievement. But don’t “should” yourself into staying in one of these positions when your heart and soul yearn for more.
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
Adam Gopnik: In my lexicon – which may be idiosyncratic but I think is also illuminating – “achievement”represents all the outer-directed, institutionally compelled things we do to advance our lives or those of our children. Getting grades, passing classes, pushing forward into select colleges. All of that. “Accomplishment” on the other hand, means... See more