Charlotte Jackson
@charsweb
Charlotte Jackson
@charsweb
hobby
- something you do because it's fun and you like it
- hobbies bring an end to anxiety
- puttering about doing something for no reason
job
- something you have to have
- you don't have to like it
- it doesn't have to be your purpose
- you don't have to be great at it - it doesn't have to consume your entire life
- don't give your heart to it
- del
When we turn pro, we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
The Metaphor: Jackhammers vs. Hummingbirds
Jackhammers are people who latch onto a passion early and remain relentlessly focused:
... See more“Jackhammers are people like me. You put a passion in our hands and we don’t look up, we don’t veer, and we’re just focused on that until the end of time.”
“It’s efficient, you get a lot done. But we tend to be obsessive an
case for reading fiction and its importance on your perspective on the world
are you serious?
people who take life seriously and go against the grain
your twenties are the time when you master what you think you’re supposed to do. But in your thirties, when you’ve figured out what you like and don’t like, and you’re more confident, you can move on to what you really want to do, which might be totally different.
They will try to entice us to get stoned with them or fuck off with them or waste time with them, as we've done in the past, and when we refuse, they will turn against us and talk us down behind our backs. At the same time, new people will appear in our lives. They will be people who are facing their own fears and who are conquering them. These peo
... See moreThe amateur spends his time in the past and the future. He permits himself to fear and to hope. The professional has taught himself to banish these distractions. When Stephen Sondheim makes a hat, he is thinking of nothing else. He is immersed. He loses himself in the work and in the moment.