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.
The task of living is figuring out a way to build enough resilience to honor, respect and nurture your nature (to essentially cultivate values) so as not to abandon it when the culture endorses something different.
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Clichés are just a cynic's characterisation of timeless and essential wisdom.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history. Reinhold Niebuhr
No easy answers—but perhaps a few new questions.
Don’t give it all away. Don’t even give most of it away. Retrench. Be clear. With yourself, but not necessarily with others. Let the fame wave pass. Live by the sea.
He said it again: “Deepen the mystery. That’s it, isn’t it?”
Don’t give it all away. Don’t even give most of it away. Retrench. Be clear. With yourself, but not necessarily with others. Let the fame wave pass. Live by the sea.
He said it again: “Deepen the mystery. That’s it, isn’t it?”