The pursuit of self-fulfillment as a path to success
An exploration of the builder and the “dark horse” mindsets
The pursuit of self-fulfillment as a path to success
"Until you can find the place in yourself that can be at peace without having what you want, then you are in the optimum position to get what you want. Because until then, your need for it is creating something in everybody you meet that is reducing the potential of that relationship to be meeting a true being of spirit in the right place."
—Ram... See more
Illegible ambition is personal, hard if not impossible to describe to others, and might not lead anywhere impressive, sometimes for years. But it is also immensely powerful. Illegible ambition is about connecting to who we really are and doing work in a state that friend and fellow internet weirdo David Perell perfectly describes as “hearts on fire... See more
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
What Buffett and many other people who have been successful in life — true success, not measured by money — have in common is that they’re able to remember what we all set out to do: live a fulfilling life! Not get rich. Not get famous. Not even get admiration, necessarily. But to live a satisfying existence and help others around them do the same.
Farnam Street • The Inner Scorecard: How Warren Buffett Mastered Life
The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.
Michael E. Gerber • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
The builder's yardstick: your life as the measure of all things
Dr. Gena Gorlinbuilders.genagorlin.com
Part of what I love about this response is that it shows a self-awareness—and active leveraging—of the fact that many of these traits are peculiar to Sam, rather than reflecting universal human virtues. That he has a relatively even-keeled temperament, that he naturally “thinks in decades,” that he loves 1:1 conversations with brilliant people (the... See more
Dr. Gena Gorlin • Extending yourself through time
As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.... See more
But don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mean that we can’t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors— but that we must make the goal conform to the individual,
Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves
Brene Brown • Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
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