#3 "Hoop Jumping"

An idea from

@WDeresiewicz

from his book Excellent Sheep where young people aim their lives at doing things not for the sake of themselves, but to check things off a list that might enable them to compete for other things - jobs, scholarships, grad schools

A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on w... See more

When you look back at the most fruitful moments of your life years from now, you’ll be surprised to discover how many of them unfolded amid a big loss or a crisis or in the face of a giant unknown.

to love someone is to attend a thousand births of the people they’re becoming

#8 Modern Protestant Ethic

The Protestant Work Ethic and its "calling" still has a strong influence on our current relationship to work. Statements like "work is life" and "use your gifts" are clear derivatives of Calvin & Luther

If you are successful, it’s almost always because some people went out of their way to help you. You have a moral obligation to pay it forward.

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

That is to say, you get your sense of who you are from things that ultimately have nothing to do with who you are: your social role, possessions, external appearance, successes and failures, belief systems, and so on. This false, mind-made self, the ego, feels vulnerable, insecure, and is always seeking new things to ... See more

#29 We want to be useful

Most people want to contribute. Even in nomad hubs where people could easily stop working forever, I find most people do things to help others, create, etc.. Realizing this can help you realize how important it is to search for the "real work"