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Here’s a surprising truth it took me ages to grasp: by far the best way to spend more of your life doing meaningful, rewarding and difference-making things is to really feel the deep sense in which **you** **don’t need to do any of that stuff at all.**
The Imperfectionist: Acting Because You Don't Have To
Oliver Burkeman
In his book Sabbath as Resistance, the Christian theologian Walter Brueggemann describes the sabbath as an invitation to spend one day per week “in the awareness and practice of the claim that we are situated on the receiving end of the gifts of God.” One need not be a religious believer to feel some of the deep relief in that idea of being “on the receiving end”—in the possibility that today, at least, there might be nothing more you need to do in order to justify your existence.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
I think most entrepreneurs know that. It's when companies are captured by big capital with publicly traded companies or private equity that they turn to maximization. That's the problem, not profit itself. I make the distinction between profit making and profit maximizing.
Marjorie Kelly on “Wealth Supremacy” & the Blueprint for a New Economy
Christopher Marquis
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