purpose
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.
-Joseph Campbell
when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • on not disappointing myself
An antidote to finding your purpose
“What should I do with my life?!?!” Here is what I wish I’d known every time I felt lost.
TOP TIP:
Don’t try to figure it out all on your own. That’s too hard. Instead, spend time with possibility-generating people & environments. Eg:
- A friend who’s always dreaming up wild ideas (ask them... See more
Tyler Altermanx.comIn 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
One of my (many) contrarian beliefs is that we do not have strong enough preferences. We often blame social media or the speed of information as the reason why we’re easily distracted, but the real reason behind our inability to focus has less to do with the sheer quantity of media and more to do with our laziness when it comes to distinguishing... See more
An antidote to finding your purpose