What Do I Want?
What do people want? In all the domains of life. And how do they know?
What Do I Want?
Ask yourself the questions, “What is the most important thing to me?” and “What is my deepest yearning?” These questions can clarify your natural point of inquiry. Ask, and then let them settle to spaces deep inside you.
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
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.com"For a few weeks, I started each morning by writing “What do I actually want?” at the top of a blank page.
It’s surprising how useful it is to keep asking the same question. Each time, my answer became more precise.
Once I knew what I wanted, I turned it into action steps."
James Clear
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
Few things are as awful as chasing something you eventually realize you never actually wanted.
Morgan Housel • Collaborative Fund: Internal vs. External Benchmarks
A couple of months ago I pursued a new habit. Every night I pulled out a pad of paper and filled a blank page with answers to the question “What do I want in life?” (This is an exercise based on Jim O’Shaughnessy’s excellent six-part Thinker & Prover thread.) Unearthing my desires was painstaking work.
Frederik Gieschen • Gratitude, Desire, and a Money Paradox
What is it I want?
Lee Hartley Carter • Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter
Each of us is occasionally overwhelmed by a multitude of competing desires: pursue job offer A or B? Start a new relationship or stay single? Sign up to run a marathon, or enjoy not getting up early to train? But life is full of marathons, and they don’t necessarily involve running. It’s good to know which desires to pursue and which ones to leave... See more