Tag: Steven Pressfield
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Non-obvious procrastination, the path unfolds as you walk, and your future self is watching
“You feel bad because your future self is watching your every move, and they don’t like what they see.”
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Avoiding the signs, The Resistance, and meaning beyond
“Does the outer space into which we dissolve taste of us at all?”
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Acting upon ambition
“To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.” Steven Pressfield We feel those stirrings of ambition, but often we quickly shut them down. Who has time…
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Getting out of the shadow career
“Sometimes, when we’re terrified of embracing our true calling, we’ll pursue a shadow calling instead. The shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalisingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to…
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Bet on yourself
“We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.” Seth Godin A hangover from the past Seth Godin highlights…