values in action

How would you like to be remembered by your descendants? What would you like colleagues to say at your retirement dinner? If the words don’t flow, draw a picture, make a sculpture, or maybe even produce a video. Studies have shown that if you can visualize yourself successfully achieving your long-term goals, producing the legacy you want to leave,

Stewart D. Friedman • Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life

Desire is what you want; purpose is the flowering of what you are. Desire tends to weaken over time, whereas purpose strengthens the more you lean into it. Desire can be depleting because it’s insatiable; purpose is empowering—it’s a stronger engine.

Mark Manson • Will

Around the same time, as I began to regain my sense of balance, I reread the work of my friend and mentor Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who'd died a few months earlier. She'd once written, "For anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That's pretty much all the info u need."

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Joe Edelman • Human Values

A brand is always answering two questions. The first one internally facing: What do we believe? The second, externally: How do we behave? You must remain authentic to yourself, your core values, and what you stand for. If you’re not, people will sniff you out. But your brand must maintain cultural congruence — remaining relevant to the times,... See more

Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules

How to Live by Your Values This Year

Casey Rosengren every.to

This Substack should be a place for honest and useful conversation, on more or less any topic. But intentions matter.

There will be an ironclad no-assholes policy, enforced with the apparent capriciousness of a bolt of lightning. If you ever find yourself wondering whether to say something vicious to another subscriber here, please take a moment to... See more

Sam Harris • About - Sam Harris

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Bill Watterson’s 1990 Commencement Speech, via Both are True

“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach