Don’t let a comfortable salary and a circle of unambitious friends deter you from chasing the best version of yourself

You‘ll look back with regrets, wondering how much more you could have achieved if you’d had the courage to walk alone and take big risks just once in your life

I may speak in different languages of people or even angels. But if I do not have love, I am only a noisy bell or a crashing cymbal. I may have the gift of prophecy. I may understand all the secret things of God and have all knowledge, and I may have faith so great I can move mountains. But even with all these things, if I do not have love, then I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and I may even give my body as an offering to be burned. But I gain nothing if I do not have love.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud. Love is not rude, is not selfish, and does not get upset with others. Love does not count up wrongs that have been done. Love takes no pleasure in evil but rejoices over the truth. Love patiently accepts all things. It always trusts, always hopes, and always endures.

Love never ends. There are gifts of prophecy, but they will be ended. There are gifts of speaking in different languages, but those gifts will stop. There is the gift of knowledge, but it will come to an end. The reason is that our knowledge and our ability to prophesy are not perfect. But when perfection comes, the things that are not perfect will end. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I stopped those childish ways. It is the same with us. Now we see a dim reflection, as if we were looking into a mirror, but then we shall see clearly. Now I know only a part, but then I will know fully, as God has known me. So these three things continue forever: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.

I think this is the right attitude. Now is always a good time to make the future a better place by having kids, making art, anticipating and preventing harm, building companies, inventing things, and so on. If we do this, the worst thing that can happen is that we live meaningful and dignified lives. The best—given the trend lines we’re on—is unimaginably good.

you have three choices:

1) be a person who makes plans
2) be lonely
3) be extremely attractive and highly approachable

if you don’t believe you are a magnet for what you want

you are not going to be a magnet for it

not because you aren’t ALREADY a magnet for what you want, but bc you aren’t available for the reality in which you ARE

Which 20 percent of your life makes you feel most alive and grounded? Can you cut away and cut away until that is what you do most of the time? And then ask the question again: what is the best 20 percent of what is left, and prune down toward that? Going fractally toward a life that feels fit.

Cutting away as much as possible that interferes with your ability to do the core things in your life well is key.

current inward motto is to just cut the grass closer to the soil