Figuring out what you want

“Ok, but what if you think more concretely about what you want to do? Like, what are the precise day-to-day activities that make you feel alive and proud of yourself?”

Regarding music, the activities he actually likes are (1) coming up with new songs and (2) performing live.

“What would be the most effective way to design your life so that you get to... See more

How to look is to go back to Explore in 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract. The rules of exploration are that it’s a numbers game. More experiments, more value. Try a little bit of a lot of things. One of those experiments will have dramatically more impact than anything to date. Follow up that.

Do what you love, but solve for distribution.

Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?

Ideas start out small, weak and fragile.

In order to grow, ideas need financial capital.

But they also need emotional capital — good energy, positivity, and resilience. The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and r... See more

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.”

There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.

We should be chefs when it comes to career-path-carving (a.k.a. reason from first principles). This is because of the following: (1) it takes up a significant chunk of our lives, (2) it plays a big role in determining the quality of our lives, (3) it serves as our primary mode of impact-making, and (4) it also serves as our primary identity.

A chef ... See more