Becoming
At the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one option among many.
https://open.substack.com/pub/escapingflatland/p/agency?r=3smee&utm_medium=ios
The reality is that you will build many worlds throughout your lifetime. Look how many you have built already, only to walk away from them, or have them dismantled, or watch them collapse without your permission. You will play many roles, you will be many people, you will try on a lot of costumes, you will exert an enormous amount of energy to put... See more
LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Shannon Downey!
Looking back over your entire life story with all its chapters, scenes, and challenges, do you discern a central theme?
Bruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Viewing identity as a narrative marks its dynamic nature. It is a process, not an entity. Identity, as an ongoing story, evolves to encompass what comes into a life and omits what no longer seems at play in that life. The changes we undergo are metabolized
Ruthellen Josselson • Paths to Fulfillment: Women's Search for Meaning and Identity
“Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things... See more
The Road to Self-Renewal
Enjoying the little things...Ideas of meaning and purpose exist on a huge scale, but they remove us from the value in the everyday. Instead of worrying about what it all “means” in the face of eternity ask: what if I only had today? This wakes you up to the preciousness of pointless and forgettable moments.
Rosie Fitzmaurice • How a meaningless life could make you happier in 2022
Frankl’s formula to experience a life of meaning was pragmatic and threefold: Take action creating a work or performing a deed. Experience something or encounter someone that you find captivating and that pulls you out of yourself. Have an optimistic attitude toward the inevitable challenges and suffering you will experience in life.
Donald Miller • Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life
A “life of meaning” is simply one in which one’s particular values are tested, extended, and expressed.