Accomplishment vs. Achievement
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Accomplishment vs. Achievement
reating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success.
Bill Watterson • SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
So what is important? Happiness—spending your day doing what you want to do. If I’m good at what I do, I make money, and that’s great, but it’s not the driver. The driver is the satisfaction I get from being good at something. People say, “It’s easy for you to say
Jack D. Schwager • Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you've never heard of
One thought I’ve often had about success is this: none of it is solid or is guaranteed to last. A supposedly great book can be forgotten or become dated. Laurels fade pretty quickly. But the one thing that seems pretty resilient is the pleasure one takes while writing – the alteration of the mind that takes place as we work a thing up the ladder, m... See more
George Saunders • Office Hours
