Lessons for Living

When we’re aware of the experiences that are out of balance, we can do something about that today. This means that instead of waiting until we’ve crossed some finish line or we finally earn X amount per year — we can ask ourselves: What would allow me to experience greater freedom today? What would allow me to experience greater aliveness today? Wh

if you plan to spend some of your four thousand weeks doing what matters most to you, then at some point you’re just going to have to start doing it.

You seek the worldly rewards of success, you achieve some (or a lot) of them, and you may be deeply attached to these rewards. But you must be prepared to walk away from these achievements and rewards before you feel ready. The decline in your fluid intelligence is a sign that it is time not to rage, which just doubles down on your unsatisfying att

And the life you will see incrementally taking shape, in the rearview mirror, will be one that meets the only definitive measure of what it means to have used your weeks well: not how many people you helped, or how much you got done; but that working within the limits of your moment in history, and your finite time and talents, you actually got aro