The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“if you want to derive meaning from things Beyond work you have to do things other than work”
“it's not going to be a source of meaning in the same way that an active hobby like guitar playing or learning a new language…”
“in many ways they try and turn their Leisure into another Quantified form of Labor”
“why don't you start small why don't you start with a run or why don't you start with reading one book or devoting 15 minutes…”
“I was just driving through London today and I saw a Wei work and it said always do what you love plastered on the side…”
“if you haven't found your dream job if you haven't found what you love you should keep searching keep trying because it's some sort of…”
“pray to beauty and you'll feel like you'll you're never beautiful enough pray to money and you feel like you'll never have enough money”
“work is extremely falsifiable maybe the algorithm changes”
“in 1950s over nine out of every 10 Americans belonged to some sort of organized religion which provided purpose something larger than themselves Community a…”
“without these institutions the need for belonging for meaning for purpose for identity remain and many people have turned to where they spend the majority…”
“after he won more gold medals than any other Olympian he fell into this pit of depression and I think the cause was that he…”
“once you reach the peak of one Hill you might be just continually searching for the next one”
“he said you know Simone I think some people do what they love for work and others do what they have to for work so…”
“here was my professional Idol a professional poet no less telling me that it's okay to have a day job”
“I'm so used to working and working to me feels so enjoyable and so purposeful and so like you know flow sty and stuff when…”
“sometimes people who are ambitious people who are really looking for that vocational soulmate get in this Loop where they work all the time and…”
“he continually had this sort of defer happiness mentality”
“here's a man who has every trapping of success he has all of what journalist David Brooks would call the the resume virtues”
“so one question I often used to think about is asking people with jobs the question of do you look forward to Mondays”
“I also think the question of do you look forward to whatever you're going home to at the end of the work day on Monday…”
“the question itself of what do I want to do or what do I want to do most is a question that takes a certain…”
“but the majority of people globally don't work because because they want to they work because they have to”
“we see the value of thinking about what the market values in one hand the value of thinking about we what we ourselves value on…”
“too many people just think about what the market values without consulting what they themselves value as well”
“she said too many people bring the best of themselves to work and bring the leftovers home”
“if we are able to invest in our families our community ities our countries then it's not just our own sense of meaning that we'll…”
“I would also return to what do you say that you value and how does how you spend your time reflect or not reflect how…”
“the third is just thinking in a broad sense of regret minimization what are the things that you might be thinking on your deathbed that…”