Fulfilling work
Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD).
In the novelist’s profession, as far as I’m concerned, there’s no such thing as winning or losing. Maybe numbers of copies sold, awards won, and critics’ praise serve as outward standards for accomplishment in literature, but none of them really matter. What’s crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you’ve set for yourself. Failure to... See more
Write For Yourself
The only productive way to answer ‘What should I do now?’ is to first tackle the question of ‘Who should I become?'
Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living
Time and time again, it is when the rubber of ambition meets the road of practicality that things get tough.
Sari Azout • Figuring it out, again and again
[I]f I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy... See more
Frederick Buechner • Listening to Your Life — Frederick Buechner
“Intelligence is making hard problems easy; stupidity is making easy problems hard; genius is making hard problems go away.”
more often the performance prevents people from doing the difficult work that produces genuine contentment.