A Good Life
what does it mean to live a good life?
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A Good Life
A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything.
It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully average at most of the rest.
It’s like walking around with a metal detector over your own life, waiting for those little “beeps” of intensity.
many of us traded in a good life for an efficient life. we must acknowledge the pendulum has swung too far towards efficiency.
Geoff Lewis • Special Edition of Temp Check: Recorded Live @websummit Nov 2, 2021
Our tendency to try to escape from the universe to find a nirvana that’s sort of quiet and peaceful and apart from all this hullabaloo is undermined completely by the realization of the nature of reality. You realize that the wisdom of the nature of reality leads you into compassion for the beings who are here, and the little bit of bliss that you... See more
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I’d like to keep my family together and raise my boys into adults who are “publicly useful and privately happy.” Anything else is gravy.
Beautiful from Austin Kleon, when asked what is his hope for himself.
My definition of “Life’s Work:”
“A lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are”
-via Patrick O’Shaughnessy
