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I sense there is a shift happening where people are realizing that they are channeling an ambitious impulse - the desire to grow and evolve - into dumb goals. Rejecting legible ambitious might be the most ambitious thing you can do.... See more
A shift from legible ambition (my parents can easily brag about me) to illegible ambition (no one, including me
Paul Millerd • Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247
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“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees.
And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever.
And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so
... See moreIf it takes three to five years for a project to gain traction, it probably doesn’t pay to start a project that the world knows it needs right now.
The challenge is picking something the world will need then. And the hard part is patiently and persistently sticking with it despite the fact that it’s not on everyone’s
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Zoe Schlanger / Memory of Winter
A common theme in most major religions involves the loss of self through communion with the divine. In Sufism, this is called fanā’ , or “the annihilation of the ego.” The 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi wrote about fanā’ in exquisite metaphors; in this poem, he compared his self to a “clear bead”:
There are no edges to my loving now.... See more
The clear bead at