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You Need a Mission in Life — RADIGAN CARTER
... See moreThe point of life is to live, and living isn’t a spectator sport.
Living means taking risks, pursuing your interests, embarrassing yourself, attempting difficult things, setting ambitious goals, trying, failing, and trying again. Living means pushing your mind and body to their limits, just to see what you’re capable of. Living means fighting back a
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if these experiences are the purpose for what we do, then throughout our lives we’ll have various missions — projects or goals or experiments — that empower us to have those experiences.
Tripp Lanier • This Book Will Make You Dangerous: The Irreverent Guide For Men Who Refuse to Settle
Go beyond passion and success. Living for the highest goal is radically different from what is normally considered the highest: reaching success in external terms and having passion for what you do in life. Most of us “sub-optimize,” that is, we go for the short-term and transitory. Go beyond these lesser goals to use the gift of life you have been
... See moreMichael Ray • The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment
writer Leo Rosten once argued was the purpose of life: “to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”6 The pathless path has helped me see that quitting my job was never about escaping work or living an easier life, it was about using the gifts I received from my parents to
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
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Define Your Way of Life
"But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."
This is my favorite insight from the letter: Identify how you want to live, not what you want to achieve.
So often people focus all their energy on the summits—but complet
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“What is it that I want to accomplish in life?” Setting aside selfish interest, it asks: What calling does it serve? What principles govern my choices? Do I want to be like everyone else or do I want to do something different?
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
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