perennially great questions to ask
because questions are the most important things you can have
perennially great questions to ask
What kind of life do you want to build? What values do you want your work to reflect? What skills do you want to develop? How do you want to contribute to the world around you? What kind of people do you want to work alongside?
And then:
What are you willing to sacrifice for those things? What discomfort are you willing to endure? What would make... See more
And then:
What are you willing to sacrifice for those things? What discomfort are you willing to endure? What would make... See more
When do you feel like your most authentic self?
Imagine the last essay or artefact you want to produce. What question would make that output feel inevitable?
What do you want your relationship to paid work to be?
The Trouble with Passion
Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
paulgraham.com • What You'll Wish You'd Known
Life is modular, not linear. You don't choose a career at twenty-two and stick with it for forty years like some kind of professional arranged marriage. Instead of hunting for the mythical perfect tree, follow your curiosity. What ideas make you pause while scrolling? What conversations do you find yourself returning to days later? When a friend... See more
Intuition is bred from experience. What type of intuition would you want to hone?
what’s the most surprising thing that’s happened to you over the past year?
It made me wonder: what other windows in my life am I forgetting to open? What joy is within reach, waiting only for me to notice the latch? Some opportunities for bliss don’t require effort. They just require remembering the second window even exists.