purpose, legacy, and perseverance
Success wasn’t simply a product of 10 years of practice or 10,000 hours of work. To understand exactly what was required to maximize your potential and master your craft, you had to look at how the best performers practiced
jamesclear.com • Lessons on Success and Deliberate Practice From Mozart, Picasso, and Kobe Bryant
Not all questions seek answers, some seek journeys.
What if, instead of working toward something for decades and barely tolerating the day-to-day process, we created a different value system around labor? What if we built our working lives around a concept other than endurance and submission?
Charlie Warzel • What if People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
Wei Wu Wei can be translated as ‘doing, non-doing’ or rather ‘doing until we reach the stage of non-doing’.
Damo Mitchell • A Comprehensive Guide to Daoist Nei Gong
Your purpose isn’t what you are building, something you find, or a career path that you create.
YOU as a person, are your purpose.
Kirsten Trammell • The Truth About Finding Your “Purpose”
When you’re engaged at work, fully engage, for defined periods of time. When you’re renewing, truly renew. Make waves. Stop living your life in the gray zone.
hbr.org • The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
this period, which was filled with hard work and little recognition, as the “ten years of silence.”
jamesclear.com • Lessons on Success and Deliberate Practice From Mozart, Picasso, and Kobe Bryant
The price we pay for dreaming is the possibility of drowning; the price we pay for not dreaming is the surety of coasting through life in a stupor of autopilot, landlocked in the givens of our time, place, and culture. The dreamer, then, is the only one fully awake to life — that bright technology of the possible the universe invented to prevail
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