Figuring out what you want
Let me phrase what I’ve been saying in this essay in a slightly different way. What you want to create is a distributed apprenticeship in the art of being you. You want to assemble a set of influences you can observe and imitate, and peers and mentors that can give you feedback on how well you converge with that model of yourself.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
That was how I felt as well, and there were no shortage of people telling me that. You don't need to do that. I'm reluctant to give anyone else advice in this area, but what I would say is that Anne-Laure Le Cunff, her book is about tiny experiments.
Your odds of being right first time on that Taoist path of differentiation integration, it's probabl... See more
Your odds of being right first time on that Taoist path of differentiation integration, it's probabl... See more
18. Tom Morgan - Wisdom in the Woo - Jackson Dahl
You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one who does what you do.
I read this book when I was growing up. Pat Riley was invited to coach several basketball teams successfully and then became the general manager of the Miami Heat. He wrote a book in the 1990s called "The Winner Within," which is kind of cheesy, but ther... See more
I read this book when I was growing up. Pat Riley was invited to coach several basketball teams successfully and then became the general manager of the Miami Heat. He wrote a book in the 1990s called "The Winner Within," which is kind of cheesy, but ther... See more
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How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor)
The willingness to figure things out as you go is often the only difference between those who achieve difficult things and those who never begin.
As Picasso observed, "To know what you are going to draw, you have to begin drawing."
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Financial freedom isn’t about money, it’s about attention. The less you have to think about money, the more free you actually are.
moretothat.com • Money Is the Megaphone of Identity
“For anyone,” Amy Krouse Rosenthal once wrote, “trying to discern what to do with their life:
PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO.
That’s pretty much all the info you need.”
PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO.
That’s pretty much all the info you need.”
Billy Oppenheimer • Tweet
“I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.” Sasha Chapin
Theologian and social justice leader Howard Thurman on passion:
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”