3-2-1: On being yourself, how to say no, and using boredom as a filter

when you say “yes” to one thing you are inevitably saying “no” to another.

Once that one's been taken care of, you can decide which one you want to do next. You don't have to limit yourself to one; you don't have to stay in it forever.

On the pathless path, once you open yourself up to possibilities and start experimenting with different ways of working and living, the biggest problem is the paradox of choice. There are too many interesting things worth doing and too many places to visit. To prioritize, developing a set of principles to help you make decisions is essential.

You needn’t embrace the specific practice of listing out your goals (I don’t, personally) to appreciate the underlying point, which is that in a world of too many big rocks, it’s the moderately appealing ones—the fairly interesting job opportunity, the semi-enjoyable friendship—on which a finite life can come to grief. It’s a self-help cliché that