On the Value of Not Reaching Your Goals
Don’t mistake the trappings of success for success itself.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Not maximizing your potential is actually the sweet spot in a world where perfecting one skill compromises another.
Morgan Housel • Page Not Found – Collab Fund
“You know deep down that accomplishing things won’t make you happy, but I think I always fantasized that it would at least feel really good. I was so wrong. Hitting #1 for the first time as an author felt like…nothing. Being a ‘millionaire’…nothing. It’s a trick of evolution that drives us, and no one is immune from making this mistake.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
“in the process of trying to attain a few moments of bliss,” Rinaldi explains, “I experience something else: patience and humility, definitely, but also freedom. Freedom to pursue the futile. And the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.” Results aren’t everything. Indeed, they’d better not be, because results always come later—and later is... See more