purpose
Rick Rubin - How To Stop Overthinking
youtube.com"What does the world need most that you are most uniquely qualified to deliver?"
—Duke Stump
In the short term a 1-of-1 purpose will almost always fail. Every day is yet another moment that people didn’t follow your vision and the world failed to transform according to your ideas. The failures are literally limitless.
With a longer view, however, this process looks different. Eighty straight days of struggling in the darkness can produce... See more
With a longer view, however, this process looks different. Eighty straight days of struggling in the darkness can produce... See more
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Create a clearing
Approach the chaos of change with the clarity of purpose. Don’t let the machines take your job; put them to work for you.
You only live once, and you get to live in the most magical time.
You only live once, and you get to live in the most magical time.
via Packy McCormick
Expected elation. Society has built a world that defines what's appealing and what's not. What success should look like. I spent years chasing this idea, and achieved it. And never felt truly happy. Why? It seems so obvious, there are a million songs and movies about how wealth and fame aren't the end all be all for human states. Yet we pursue it... See more
finding your purpose is a trap
To illustrate the difference between art and technique, he tells the story of two people who each make a glass cup: the first person designs a fine, functional glass from which one can drink perfectly, but the second person, an artisan, creates another glass cup that is so special, it generates an emotional reaction.
The Greeks would say the second... See more
The Greeks would say the second... See more