Eudaimonia & Wellbeing
Zielschmerz n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.
The Trouble with Passion also raises more existential questions about the prioritization of passion among career decision-makers.
What does it mean to center paid employment in one's self-reflexive project?
How does it perpetuate a culture of overwork and close off other meaning-making opportunities? And in what ways might the popularity of the
... See moreThe project I'm doing is basically turning myself into a certain type of person who is able to have these thoughts. The essays are kind of just exhaust from the project. The work is growing emotionally and intellectually in such a way, and just going out into the world, talking to people, reading, looking at things, and becoming the kind of mind
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