30 on 30
Exploring the meaning of life when turning 30
30 on 30
Growing up, I thought making $100,000 a year made someone rich. When I made that amount for the first time at 27, I felt like I had more than I could ever need. Yet I opted into an identity that didn’t accept such complacency. Everyone around me was always moving forward towards the next achievement.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
I hope you get to know your inner world. I hope you thrive financially while living your values. I hope you focus less on what you achieve and more on who you become. I hope you learn to be kind to yourself. I hope you fall in love with the process. I hope you see the point of pursuing passion work is not to drain yourself to create work that... See more
letter to a friend who is thinking of starting something new
Confucius says you have two lives, and the second one begins when you realize you only have one. When and how did your second life begin?
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow." Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
When you look back at the most fruitful moments of your life years from now, you’ll be surprised to discover how many of them unfolded amid a big loss or a crisis or in the face of a giant unknown.
Heather Havrilesky • Tolerating Unknowns Will Make You Stronger
Questions are the answers you might need
A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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