Figuring out what you want
We may have to go back as far as childhood to ask: What did I really enjoy doing? When did I feel most alive? There may be clues to what our future should be in the way we used to play as small children, when impressing and earning money were far from our minds.
Alain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey
When you’re doing what you’re meant to do, you benefit the world in a unique and irreplaceable way. This brings money, friendship, true love, inner peace, and everything else worth having; it sounds facile, but it’s really true. Richard Nelson Bolles, the author of the perennial best-seller What Color Is Your Parachute?, puts it this way: “Your mis
... See moreMartha Beck • Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
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Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
A quote by Joseph Campbell
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
— Howard Thurman
Starlight Leadership
WHAT DID JOSEPH CAMPBELL MEAN BY "FOLLOW YOUR BLISS"?
Wh at makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.
That's been my advice to young people who ask me, "What shall I do?" I taught once in a boys' prep school. That's the moment for young boys (or it used to be; I don't know what's going on now) when they had to decide their life courses. You know, where are... See more
Wh at makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.
That's been my advice to young people who ask me, "What shall I do?" I taught once in a boys' prep school. That's the moment for young boys (or it used to be; I don't know what's going on now) when they had to decide their life courses. You know, where are... See more
JCF • WHAT DID JOSEPH CAMPBELL MEAN BY "FOLLOW YOUR BLISS"?
"You have to stick with something long enough to get a good enough grip on it, before you find that passion"
The Making of a Self Educated Child Genius
You’ll get good at anything you commit to. Most of talent is bullshit. Don’t worry about getting good, worry about seeing if you like the process of getting good. If you’re only going to enjoy something when you’re good at it, you’re not going to stick with it. You’re looking for what you also enjoy sucking at.
Nat Eliason • The Life-Changing Magic of High-Speed Career Sampling - Nat Eliason
"What you should be doing when you're creating a startup, is not 'what space is hot', or 'what resources can I bring to there.' It's what knowledge do I have? As Peter Thiel says- what is a secret, what is a thing that I believe to be true that other people don't- that I have an intellectual obsession around . If you've been obsessed with the space... See more
🏴 On intensity, intellectual obsessions, and the pain cave. Ten Bullets.
Don't wait. Don't wait till the end of college to figure out what to work on. Don't even wait for internships during college. You don't necessarily need a job doing x in order to work on x; often you can just start doing it in some form yourself. And since figuring out what to work on is a problem that could take years to solve, the sooner you star... See more