Sublime

And here is how to leave Mount Delectable behind: stop with the hustle.

The author Gretchen Rubin decided to override her “ought to” self when she said, “I’ve come to a point where I’d rather fail as a writer than succeed as a lawyer, and I need to try and fail or try and succeed, but I need to do it.”⁠6 Rubin attended Yale Law School, clerked for Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, and was at the start of a high

I was leaving behind my home and my identity as an achiever, a safe refuge which had gotten me to this point but was no longer serving me.

My inner teacher felt completely aligned with the thought that as a child, I’d been a victim. No question. But now I was an adult who had consciously decided to step outside the rules of my culture. I’d known that people would push back. I realized that the person sending that fax probably saw me as “attacking our way of life.” After all, I’d told

The experience of noticing we’re on the wrong path, in what feels like the wrong life, comes to almost all of us at some point.

our attachment to our dream remains unquestioned and untouched, we are killing ourselves, because our true life goes by almost unnoticed.

Many of my clients can’t figure out what they want to do with their careers until they restore themselves to physical health by resting deeply for weeks, sometimes even months. Whatever your body tells you to do, the odds are very good that it’s the next step toward your North Star.