Sarah Pollock
@sarahjordyn
Sarah Pollock
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.
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A shift from legible ambition (my parents can easily brag about me) to illegible ambition (no one, including me knowfrom Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247 by Paul Millerd
- When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul.
from Notes on “Taste” by are.na
- It’s easier to recognize beauty than it is to create it. You’re good enough to know that what you’re doing isn’t good, but not good enough to produce something great. When you find yourself in this frustrating limbo, the challenge is to never forget what got you there in the first place. Remember that thing that got you into the game.
Your love. You... See morefrom Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says by James Clear
There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.
from Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel by Gabrielle Zevin
- Philosopher and author Albert Camus on the excuses we allow ourselves to live by:
"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it." - my little life of optionality—my malleable, absorbent dunnage which lessens the shock of surprises, avoids pain and prevents breakage. No commitments, nobody counting on me, no one to disappoint and no one to disappoint me. Still, if life becomes intolerable—a measure which is lowered with each available treatment, each magical distraction—I have a... See more
from Pain & Surprise
- My best thoughts – the ones that make the most difference in my life – are rarely the byproduct of thought.
A-ha moments.
Epiphanies.
Inspirational insights.
They rarely arise from thinking hard.
They are, instead – a byproduct of leaning back.
Finding flow.
Letting go
The backward step.
A clearing – for me - is where clarity calls home.from The Backward Step by ian hollander
Before you know what your calling is, you must believe you are called to something. It doesn’t matter if you know what. In order to cultivate awareness, you must be willing to act, to step out and see what happens. And once you are convinced that purpose will not find you, that you will have to go in search of it, you are ready. Until you make this
... See morefrom The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do by Jeff Goins