Opinion | Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning (Published 2021)
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Opinion | Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning (Published 2021)
Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn't matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Work as hard as you can without burning out, and this will eventually bring you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. These look smooth from a distance,... See more
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
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?
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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.