Forging a Meaningful Career
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.
love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even... See more
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
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Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
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While I have always liked my career, I have way more fun with it now. I've got nothing to prove, and I don't care what the critics say. When I finish writing a book, I don't push myself to start the next one; I enjoy having just written one.
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are.
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are.
3. It is very hard to change the world when you are broke. So don't apologize for chasing money.
4. Meet everyone. Say yes to everything. You narrow the field later.
5. Do it all. Because you’ll die eventually and life will make you slow down. But up until then, eat the world.
4. Meet everyone. Say yes to everything. You narrow the field later.
5. Do it all. Because you’ll die eventually and life will make you slow down. But up until then, eat the world.
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You have no idea how much life success comes from having the raw audacity to ask for things and just working with a diligent focus to be competent.
People inherently respect those traits so much that they feel a moral obligation to provide opportunities for you.
People inherently respect those traits so much that they feel a moral obligation to provide opportunities for you.
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Ultimately, the true measure of any educational experience lies in how it empowers individuals to think critically, pursue meaningful goals, and contribute to society in ways that resonate with their authentic aspirations, conventional or otherwise, while maintaining reasonable levels of personal well-being.