Life Advice
unoptimal and
Life Advice
unoptimal and
Ursula LeGuin (1983)
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
My yoga teacher always starts class with this line:
"Congrats. The hardest part is over. You showed up."
I feel like that mindset applies to most other things.
I’m not great at advice—I share Oscar Wilde’s opinion about it, for the most part—but with that caveat I’d say this: don’t be afraid of seeking. Don’t be afraid of your own depth. Don’t dumb yourself down to be less threatening to others. Don’t let the shallow present monoculture shame you into vacuousness.