The Goal is Resonance | Shreyas Hariharan

Focus on maximizing your satisfaction, not your audience reach. Often times you can sacrifice your creativity to reach a larger audience, but it will cost you some satisfaction

Is it possible that we must be passive to experience resonance? Do we only hear those loud, clear, deep, and continuing sounds—perhaps the heartbeat of the universe—when we forfeit control and let the wind blow us where it may? Does our grammar know more about the world than we do—does it embody wisdom that eludes the modern mind?

You can’t try to resonate. Ultimately, resonance is beyond us. Like happiness, it can’t be a goal.

Pulsating through them are a handful of common themes — the elementary particles of which any creative life, any life of passion and purpose, any fully human life is built — none looming larger than the relationship between vulnerability and belonging, which constellates our entire cosmos of being: what we make, how we love, why we long for the thi... See more