Commitment
Musings on committing and continually showing up to a place, a profession, or a person in an age of endless opportunities + persevering - even and especially when it's hard.
by sari and · updated 3mo ago
Commitment
If you're going to try,
go all the way.There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods,
and the nights will flame with fire.You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It's the only good fight there is.
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
lili added 3mo ago
Billy Oppenheimer on small steps to get to big leaps:
One of Hugh Howey’s other hobbies is sailing. Once he had the luxury of writing full-time, he sailed around the world. “You can’t get to where you want to be in one day,” he says, “just like you don’t sail around the world in a day. You just look at the horizon and say, ‘I can sail that far.
... See morealex added 6mo ago
- my little life of optionality—my malleable, absorbent dunnage which lessens the shock of surprises, avoids pain and prevents breakage. No commitments, nobody counting on me, no one to disappoint and no one to disappoint me. Still, if life becomes intolerable—a measure which is lowered with each available treatment, each magical distraction—I have a... See more
from Pain & Surprise
sari added 6mo ago
- Wendell Berry wrote: there are two muses — the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought."
from what's a good commitment? by Nix 🕊
sari added 7mo ago
alex added 7mo ago
- sometimes people ask something like “do you think this could work?” and I sorta waffle around on it but I realize my truer answer is something like: it’ll probably work IF *you* believe it will work and *you* commit to making it work for 7+ years
Alara added 9mo ago
lili added 9mo ago
- I’m thinking about conviction, because it is so rare.
A lot of people start off with conviction, but life, hardships, and other people’s opinions get in the way, and they stop believing in the greatness of their own ideas.
I’ve met intelligent types with lots of skills and advantages at their disposal. But they usually don’t know where to go with the... See morefrom Taste, Conviction, Elon Musk by sari azout
sari added 9mo ago