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At some point, you'll need to make a deal with yourself.
What is this career for? What are the boundaries? What are you keeping score of, maximizing, improving? Who do you serve?
Once you make this pact, don't break it without a great deal of serious thought.
You might say you're seeking to create freedom and joy. But then, incrementally, you find yourself trading freedom for money, for status or for approval from strangers...
Or you might sign up to build leverage and wealth. Which is fine, except when you blink in the face of the huge opportunity you've worked hard for.
We know you can't have everything. No one can. So, what's it for?
The best time to make a pact is right now. And the worst time to re-visit this pact is when there's a lot of short-term pressure.
Seth's Blog: The Pact
sethgodin.typepad.com
Running teaches you about the inherent unfairness of the world. Two people can work exactly the same, in fact, one can be infinitely more devoted and train much harder and not do as well. An object lesson in how unfair life is.
Malcolm Gladwell: ‘No One Thinks of Me as a Potential Terrorist Any More’
Tim Lewis
As improvisers, and especially long-form improvisers, we need to get away from a dependence on story, plot and premise and concentrate on relationship.
The Triangle of the Scene
Paul Vaillancourt
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