purpose
Kurt Vonnegut on picking a lane:
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way—although I would not be sorry if you wrote one,... See more
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way—although I would not be sorry if you wrote one,... See more
Buttondown • Tweet
Are you creating to build what looks like success to others or are you creating to build value?
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
The Most Important Piece of Career Advice You Probably Never Heard - Cal Newport
Study Hackscalnewport.com
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
Soul (2O2O) - Dorothea Telling The Fish Story To Jeo | New York City | MᴏᴠɪᴇCʟɪᴘ4ᴜ | Movie Clip 4K
youtube.comwe’re all the little fish
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
They will add up to something
