Hasitha Senevirathne
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Hasitha Senevirathne
We may have to go back as far as childhood to ask: What did I really enjoy doing? When did I feel most alive? There may be clues to what our future should be in the way we used to play as small children, when impressing and earning money were far from our minds.
Alain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey
When you’re doing what you’re meant to do, you benefit the world in a unique and irreplaceable way. This brings money, friendship, true love, inner peace, and everything else worth having; it sounds facile, but it’s really true. Richard Nelson Bolles, the author of the perennial best-seller What Color Is Your Parachute?, puts it this way: “Your mis
... See moreMartha Beck • Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
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Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
A quote by Joseph Campbell
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
— Howard Thurman
Starlight Leadership
WHAT DID JOSEPH CAMPBELL MEAN BY "FOLLOW YOUR BLISS"?
Wh at makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.
That's been my advice to young people who ask me, "What shall I do?" I taught once in a boys' prep school. That's the moment for young boys (or it used to be; I don't know what's going on now) when they had to decide their life courses. You know, where are... See more
Wh at makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.
That's been my advice to young people who ask me, "What shall I do?" I taught once in a boys' prep school. That's the moment for young boys (or it used to be; I don't know what's going on now) when they had to decide their life courses. You know, where are... See more
JCF • WHAT DID JOSEPH CAMPBELL MEAN BY "FOLLOW YOUR BLISS"?
"You have to stick with something long enough to get a good enough grip on it, before you find that passion"
The Making of a Self Educated Child Genius
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”... See more
A quote from The Power of Myth
What many people do not seem to understand, is that Chat-GPT makes you jump from problem to solution, while the whole point of problem solving, is not to solve the problem, but train yourself to become better in problem solving (a verb). Solving one problem is just by-catch. Problem solving is training on the job. Always, without end.