Winning at life
Miranda July Shows What 'Second Half of Life' Living Actually Looks Like
Kirsten Powersopen.substack.com
The world tells you that you can be anything, so you forget how to be yourself.
It shows you everything you can become, so you abandon what you already are.
It offers you a million lives; you choose none, and lose the one that was already yours.
It shows you everything you can become, so you abandon what you already are.
It offers you a million lives; you choose none, and lose the one that was already yours.
“A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are. […] Almost always, the people who say ‘I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I’m going to figure them out’, and mean it, go on to... See more
Assume you can
You go first.
What if you used AI to create an app that was just for your family. Like you would cook a meal. Just for your family 🤯
Finding your life's purpose by reframing envy as a constructive clue to uncover your true ambitions and desires.
TRANSCRIPT
Because unless you're a very rare person, you will have to assemble a vision of your future. It's not going to come ready-made and there won't be a voice from the sky going, you are an accountant or you are a downhill skier. It's going to be something you have to assemble.
And you'll assemble it in bits. you'll have to recreate the original
... See moreThe thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with... See more