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If I ask someone who’s trying to figure out WTF they want to do with their lives, “Well, what’s your passion?” they’ll typically blow a fuse, short-circuit and go into freeze. This is obviously not helpful. Furthermore, we tend to think this is something that we can figure out if we just think harder and longer about it. But clarity comes in... See more
Heather Havrilesky • How to Swap Big, Confusing Career Goals For Small, Fun Experiments
“The advice to follow your passion can be intimidating at best and harmful at worst.”
Instead, I recommend you follow whatever’s currently giving you energy. Imagine you have nine lives to choose from—but you can’t go back in time. They all start today. The first life is whatever you’re doing right now. The other eight are things you would jump out... See more
Graham Weaver • Stanford GSB Last Lecture 2024 - How To Live Your Life At Full Power — Graham Weaver
The common complaint among a lot of these people is that they need to “find their passion.”
I call bullshit. You already found your passion, you’re just ignoring it. Seriously, you’re awake 16 hours a day, what the fuck do you do with your time? You’re doing something, obviously. You’re talking about something. There’s some topic or activity or idea... See more
I call bullshit. You already found your passion, you’re just ignoring it. Seriously, you’re awake 16 hours a day, what the fuck do you do with your time? You’re doing something, obviously. You’re talking about something. There’s some topic or activity or idea... See more
Mark Manson • Screw Finding Your Passion
instead of asking “what’s my passion?” — start with a softer lens: what feels good in my nervous system? you’ll learn more about yourself by tracking your energy than your accomplishments. keep a low-stakes log for two weeks: note what conversations feel nourishing, what kinds of work make time disappear, what content you consume when no one’s... See more
What if AI manages to simulate social interactions so well that we can’t tell whether we are interacting with a real person or a bot
Richard Kyte • Finding Your Third Place
That should make us ask what new myths we are constructing, right now, about what is good for us. Robots that read to us? Long-distance classes that will save us the trouble of face-to-face encounters with teachers? Computer psychotherapists that will save us the trouble and embarrassment of having to talk to humans about our problems? All of these
... See moreSherry Turkle • Alone Together
what, in the age of smart machines, was special about being a person
Sherry Turkle • Alone Together
“I spent a year as a creative director doing exactly this. Good salary. Decent title. Work that needed doing. But nothing that required me specifically. Nothing that used the particular way I see the world. Which is why I always felt like there was something missing from the role, and perhaps why I never felt truly very good at it.”
The Epidemic of... See more
The Epidemic of... See more
But what if stuckness isn’t just psychological miscalibration? What if it’s not failure at all, but initiation? What if the room you can’t yet leave is not a trap, but a crucible? I’m not offering a sermon here, at least not one you’d hear in church, but bear with me!
Nearly every sacred text worth reading insists on the necessity of the in-between.... See more
Nearly every sacred text worth reading insists on the necessity of the in-between.... See more