Everything worth having lives on the other side of effort.

Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance.

Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance

The problem? No wind. In nature, trees develop stress wood in response to wind resistance: dense, strong fibers that anchor them and help them withstand storms. Without wind, the Biosphere 2 trees grew tall and beautiful but fundamentally weak. They had no roots deep enough to support their own growth.

In nature, adversity isn't the enemy of growth.... See more

PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO

Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life

Everything worth having lives on the other side of effort.

Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance.

The people who understand this most deeply are often the happiest, because they've made peace with the beautiful burden of nurturing. They know that the dishes exist because they've been eating good meals all week.... See more

Motivation is weather: changeable, unpredictable, often absent when you need it most. Discipline is climate: the steady, reliable conditions you create for yourself regardless of how you feel on any given day.

Instead of asking children what their dream job is, we should be asking different questions entirely!

What kind of life do you want to build? What values do you want your work to reflect? What skills do you want to develop? How do you want to contribute to the world around you? What kind of people do you want to work alongside?

And then:

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This is why the influencer dream is so seductive and so dangerous. It promises intensity without consistency, passion without discipline, reward without work. It's the lottery ticket approach to career planning, and like most lottery tickets, it's a tax on not understanding probability.