purpose
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
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
when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • on not disappointing myself
Conviction is an extension of self-knowledge. It emerges from your experiences and prior conditions. To know that is to know yourself. Being someone with conviction is really just living with clarity, and everything else is downstream of this self-knowledge.
on not living a paper-thin life
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
"Ideas start out small, weak, and fragile. In order to grow, ideas need financial capital. But they also need emotional capital - good energy, positivity, and resilience. The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and replace your hunger for approval with a desire to grow."
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“Every journey is a question of sorts, and the best journeys are the ones in which every question opens into deeper and more searching questions.”
— Pico Iyer, The Pilgrim’s Way on Waking Up