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4000s by 40: Tackling Middle Age in the Mountains of New Hampshire
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Writing and Learning
When you write your first book, there is a lot to learn. What no one tells you is how much of that learning comes after writing it.
It's been a busy month discussing 4000s by 40, working through what book project to dive into next, and building a more formal daily writing process so I continue to move the needle forward. Like writing, every bit of what comes after takes practice. Speaking engagemen Read more of this blog post »
It's been a busy month discussing 4000s by 40, working through what book project to dive into next, and building a more formal daily writing process so I continue to move the needle forward. Like writing, every bit of what comes after takes practice. Speaking engagemen Read more of this blog post »
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| Finished reading The White Mountain this morning, and I really enjoyed it. Szczesny did an excellent job of not just relaying the spirit of the hiker, but of all the various people who derive meaning from New Hampshire's tallest peak. The White Mount ...more | |
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"As someone who loves hiking but would never consider tackling all of New Hampshire’s 4,000-footers in a year, or hiking mountains knee-deep in winter snow for that matter, I wasn’t sure how interesting I would find this book. I’m happy to say, it was"
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“Mountains are different and unique from anything else you will face in life in that they are the truest, cleanest representative of life’s challenges in physical form. There is no mistaking the end goal, and there is no mistaking who got you there. You have to count on you, and your arrival at the summit is the simplest and most honest achievement for your soul that you can experience.”
― 4000s by 40: Tackling Middle Age in the Mountains of New Hampshire
― 4000s by 40: Tackling Middle Age in the Mountains of New Hampshire
“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.
Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.
We can't be anything we want to be.
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― The War of Art
Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.
We can't be anything we want to be.
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― The War of Art
