on living a good life
“…
Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
Snippet from Don’t Hesitate, Mary Oliver
how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
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“The truth, which is harder to communicate, is that you have some vague sense of its value, which you hope that some future version of yourself might properly grasp.”
Agnes Callard
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
Henrik Karlssonopen.substack.com
Context and observation
Feedback Loop
Unbundling if need be
Living by a plan means letting an earlier version of myself be my boss, telling me what to do. But I know more than he did. By leaving my plans open-ended and just having a rough sense of direction, I devolve authority to future versions of myself. If I take care of the problems I face right now, those future versions will be smarter than me and in... See more
Henrik Karlssonsubstack.com“Suppose that you sign up for a classical-music-appreciation class, in which your first assignment is to listen to a symphony. You put on headphones, press Play—and fall asleep. The problem is that you don’t actually want to listen to classical music; you just want to want to. Aspiring, Callard thinks, is a common human activity: there are aspiring
... See moreAspiration: The Agency of Becoming, Agnes Callard
“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”
Anne Bogart