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Maybe most importantly, a Personal Business is properly scaled. It doesn’t have to be small, but it should grow at a pace that optimizes for its own resilience rather than to dominate a market.

Medieval surnames came directly from occupations because work was identity. Around the 11th century, everyone knew who John the Baker was versus John the Miller. Your work was literally your signature.

The word "vocation" comes from Latin vocatio —literally meaning "a call, summons." Originally, a divine calling.

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kindness can be a survival skill.

Solitude is desirable for the freedom it gives you. Distanced from social demands, you can simply follow the wishes of your heart. It’s like an extensive, eyes-open meditation.

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

Mastery, Robert said, requires boredom and tedium. It requires doing the same mundane things over and over and over. It requires sitting with the frustration of putting in work that doesn’t immediately pay off.

On the other hand, exploration is a cognitive process that involves cultivating an interest in obtaining new information. It is closely related to curiosity and represents a desire to learn something new.

Gen-Z isn’t just trusting influencers over experts, they’re redefining what “expert” even means. Doctors, journalists, and scientists are dismissed, not because they are wrong, but because they are inconvenient, a straw poll of teens told Fortune . Influencers, on the other hand, are fast, familiar, and on the medium we turn to most: our phones.