Life

as if the worst thing in the world is unstructured free time.

Meaning emerges not from avoiding struggle but from choosing struggle that serves something larger than yourself.

Most of the things we do and believe result from stories that we tell ourselves

While we’re focusing on being the best possible Protagonist in our respective inner stories, everyone else is seeing only how we’re doing in our other, more public role. If you think about what people are admired and remembered for, it’s always for the kind of Other Person they were.