purpose anxiety
hobby
- something you do because it's fun and you like it
- hobbies bring an end to anxiety
- puttering about doing something for no reason
job
- something you have to have
- you don't have to like it
- it doesn't have to be your purpose
- you don't have to be great at it - it doesn't have to consume your entire life
- don't give your heart to it
- del
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
The amateur believes that, before she can act, she must receive permission from some Omnipotent Other — a lover or spouse, a parent, a boss, a figure of authority.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Me before moving to new york
Fear of self-definition is what keeps an amateur an amateur and what keeps an addict an addict.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Master geberalist out of fear of self definition
your twenties are the time when you master what you think you’re supposed to do. But in your thirties, when you’ve figured out what you like and don’t like, and you’re more confident, you can move on to what you really want to do, which might be totally different.
Ina Garten • Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
The Metaphor: Jackhammers vs. Hummingbirds
Jackhammers are people who latch onto a passion early and remain relentlessly focused:
... See more“Jackhammers are people like me. You put a passion in our hands and we don’t look up, we don’t veer, and we’re just focused on that until the end of time.”
“It’s efficient, you get a lot done. But we tend to be obsessive an
“I am twenty-four years old and I have still done nothing…I am sure it’s not for nothing that I have been struggling with all my doubts and passions for the past eight years. But what am I destined for? Only time will tell.” I was thirty years old reading this, sitting by a river in Mexico, wondering what I had done with my life. I knew it wasn’t f
... See moreJedidiah Jenkins • To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
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