An online education company asked me to come up with an online course. Maybe I’ll do a course on “The Daily Practice,” but I made a list of ten other courses I could maybe teach. It was hard! I didn’t even know if I knew enough about ten different topics to be able to teach them. I still don’t know. But I made the list. My mind sweated like a pig.

You won’t be able to drum up the energy to climb the success ladder—or for that matter, to wash your hair.

So the point is to take the work seriously but you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a riff about this in Stephen Pressfield’s War of Art, where he talks about how amateurs are too precious with their work: “The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make him choke. The seeming detachmen

When you’re Non-Sacral, you don’t consistently wake up with that full-tank-of-gas-that-wants-to-be-spent feeling. In fact, most of the time you will not feel that way.