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.
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Commitment
An epic read on how to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put
our ability to bind our future selves to a future is what makes us agentic, rather than just moment-to-moment responders. Maybe the total inability to commit is a deeper kind of temporal fragmentation—the self splintering into a thousand disconnected moments instead of flowing through time as a continuous “I”. It’s fascinating to turn this idea ove... See more
Sindhu Shivaprasad • commitment is an act of agency
Woody Allen said “80% of success is showing up.” To which @howes28 added, “and the other 20% is refusing to leave.”
I think about that a lot when companies run into tough times. So much of long term company success is built on the team simply persisting.
"Young people run around searching for identity, but it isn’t handed out free anymore — not in this transient, rootless, pluralistic society. Your identity is what you’ve committed yourself to."