What Do I Want?
What do people want? In all the domains of life. And how do they know?
What Do I Want?
There's something particularly painful about being good at something you don't care about.
You get promoted, praised, paid more - all for work that makes you feel nothing. The better you get, the harder it becomes to leave.
You become an expert in a field you never chose, just because you ... See more
Alexsubstack.comBeing good at something you hate or at least don’t love
What do I really want? Is it fame, money, awards, self-satisfaction? Any of these things are perfectly fine, but you need to know what it is for you and for your business, and the most ambitious have something deeper.
Katie Lewis • Find Your 9others
What do I really want for myself? What do I really want for others? What do I really want for the relationship? Once you’ve asked yourself what you want, add one more equally telling question: How would I behave if I really wanted these results?
Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler • Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
What is it I want?
Lee Hartley Carter • Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter
I think about this quote on a daily basis. It's one of the most common concepts I share with my coaching clients, and here's why...
Most people either:
• Lack clarity on what they want out of life.
• Know what they want, but don't know how to achieve it.
• Secretl... See more
imo, “knowing what you want, at which level of abstraction” is an underrated skill
I often see “I want to found a company” or “I want to write” etc
but the underlying thing is some other desire B that could have been met more directly. feeling valued, friends, ecstasy, etc
Elena Lake 🌿x.comFew things are as awful as chasing something you eventually realize you never actually wanted.
Morgan Housel • Collaborative Fund: Internal vs. External Benchmarks
The first step towards being “high agency” is always the same. You cannot take effective action towards bending the world to your desire until you know, in detail, what it is that you desire.