The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
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The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
As soon as I took the Renaissance Soul quiz, I knew I was one. That made me happy the whole weekend. But when Monday morning rolled around and I was back at work, I went into a panic. How can I have any sort of economic security if I keep changing interests all the time? Deep down I think I really count on that regular paycheck, the promotions, and
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The pursuit of blogging—and the career, success, and fame I thought would follow—had poisoned my relationship with writing. The promise of getting published and pulling in the big bucks distracted me from my true purpose: doing the real work. The work of writing. I was finding clever and convenient ways to avoid writing. I updated my website. I cre
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WORK YOUR PASSION Masters focus on what they do best. That’s how they become masters. They stay in their zone, and the zone is what feels good. Damn good.
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Nine months into self-employment, I had landed four different projects and proved to myself that I could “make it” working on my own. But I had a problem: those projects were the same kind I had done in my consulting career, and as my financial anxiety diminished, I discovered that I didn’t actually want to build a life around this kind of work.