Opinion | Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning (Published 2021)
nytimes.comSaved by Ashley Zhang
Opinion | Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning (Published 2021)
Saved by Ashley Zhang
How boring to spend the whole of my vocational energy trying to figure out if I am choosing the right work. It is of much greater interest to me to talk about how I’m going to do the work with integrity. How am I going to protect dignity as I work? And what truths are calling out to me as I work?
Many different lines of enquiry have led me to this same conviction:
The best guiding question in life is, “Who do you want to share this life with?”
Everything else can be derived from this question. Your ethics, beliefs, actions, habits.