loving the process
Natalie Audelo and
loving the process
three weeks till Be Not Afraid of Love is out in the world so here is an exclusive snippet from the chapter “Miracle” ★彡
i had the deepest honour of doing an exclusive performance reading with some of my sweetest, talented iconic friends at @palmheightsgc and it’s already been so heart-opening to share this book with... See more
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Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in
... See moreAnna Quindlen • Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova
Adam Gopnik: In my lexicon – which may be idiosyncratic but I think is also illuminating – “achievement”represents all the outer-directed, institutionally compelled things we do to advance our lives or those of our children. Getting grades, passing classes, pushing forward into select colleges. All of that. “Accomplishment” on the other hand, means... See more
Accomplishment vs. Achievement
accomplishment = inner-directed
achievement = outer-directed
This is an amazing algorithm: do interesting things and magically arrive at a complex understanding of the world.