What Do I Want?
What do people want? In all the domains of life. And how do they know?
What Do I Want?
All of the things we want, or have been taught to want, flood in. It turns out our wants are not as clear as we may have thought. As we attempt to sort through the endless images offered up by our desires, we realize they come from many sources: what our culture values, what our family considers worthwhile, what our friends or social circles prize,
... See moreJames Doty • Mind Magic
What do you want out of life? That’s hard to answer. What don’t you want? That’s easy.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
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
There are so many people who don’t know what they want. And I think that, in this world, that’s the only thing you have to know — exactly what you want. ... Doing what you were born to do ... That’s the way to be happy.
Maria Popova • Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness
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
Think about which desires you really want to own and cultivate. It doesn’t matter whether they were originally mimetic or not – the intentionality that you bring to them can allow you to become the author of a new creation.
Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want
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
If we don't know what we want we're less likely to get it
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback] Tegmark,
A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how t... See more