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There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.
Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan
We're trying to do things the slow way, the way that sucks up time
Naomi Shefali Joshi • The Quality Makers: Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate (2024) | The Quality Edit
“the way that sucks up time”
After I detached and took responsibility for myself, I wondered if maybe other people weren’t the reason I hadn’t been living my own life; maybe they were just the excuse I’d needed. My destiny—my todays and tomorrows—looked pretty grim.
Melody Beattie • Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Revised and Updated)
We’re terrified of life being interrupted by the stuff of actual life.
completely crazy the extent that the world is bottlenecked by motivation
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walzr.com
The problems of failure are hard. The problems of success can be harder, because nobody warns you about them.