Building the kind of life i want
Maybe you’re on a mission to collect more grandiose moments. That’s fair. But what does a moment really mean to you? Is it a glimpse of time colliding with attention, or the awkward pause between telling a story and realizing you’ve exaggerated details no one cares about
Pushing against resistance feels meaningful, even satisfying, because it means you’re moving towards something that didn’t exist for you before. And so you reach the reward, and it’s novel and it’s different, and just for a moment it’s magic.
April and the fool
Chasing scale seems to be a kind of early life affliction. The more you chase it, the bigger the thing you chase gets. Perhaps it’s a natural desire to see how important we can be or at least how important our creations can be to the world (and hence how important we can be by proxy …). A desire to take on a seemingly insurmountable challenge,
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Find people whose presence recalibrates your ambition. People who live in the dimension you’re aiming for, not because they’re better, but because they remind you what’s possible.
Find people whose presence recalibrates your ambition. People who live in the dimension you’re aiming for, not because they’re better, but because they remind you what’s possible.
I keep punting this, am I reinforcing a permanent employee-only mindset? Am I locking myself into a single-channel system where all my leverage depends on others' approval?
You launch the side project—even if in micro-form. The real win isn’t the project itself, but the shift into a system of self-authorship and compound leverage.
You launch the side project—even if in micro-form. The real win isn’t the project itself, but the shift into a system of self-authorship and compound leverage.
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
Sylvia plath
He told me to pay attention to what I enjoyed most about my lifestyle, and try to preserve it while I experimented.
Being alive consists of nothing more than the sum of what we pay attention to.
This quote from Tony Hsieh contains so much truth: “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”
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