“The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
“It's okay to disagree with each other, what's not okay is to hate each other because we disagree.”
― All For Acceptance
― All For Acceptance
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that
grows flowers, not thunder. —Rumi”
― How to Communicate Like a Buddhist
grows flowers, not thunder. —Rumi”
― How to Communicate Like a Buddhist
“What I’m about to tell you,” Elliott told me, “ninety-nine percent of people in the world will never understand.” For the first time all week, it was just the two of us. Elliott had told Austin he wanted to talk to me one-on-one. We were standing on a rooftop lounge during sunset, looking out at the Manhattan skyline. “You see, most people live a linear life,” he continued. “They go to college, get an internship, graduate, land a job, get a promotion, save up for a vacation each year, work toward their next promotion, and they just do that their whole lives. Their lives move step by step, slowly and predictably. “But successful people don’t buy into that model. They opt into an exponential life. Rather than going step by step, they skip steps. People say that you first need to ‘pay your dues’ and get years of experience before you can go out on your own and get what you truly want. Society feeds us this lie that you need to do x, y, and z before you can achieve your dream. It’s bullshit. The only person whose permission you need to live an exponential life is your own. “Sometimes an exponential life lands in your lap, like with a child prodigy. But most of the time, for people like you and me, we have to seize it for ourselves. If you actually want to make a difference in the world, if you want to live a life of inspiration, adventure, and wild success—you need to grab on to that exponential life—and hold on to it with all you’ve got.”
― The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
― The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
“You have no way of knowing what’s going on in the lives of the people in your pipeline. You can’t anticipate their mood or how generous they’re feeling. All you can do is control your effort.”
― The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
― The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
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