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2. Work on things that you like My colleague Natalie Rusk likes to say that “interests are a natural resource that fuels learning.” When you work on projects you care about, you’re willing to work longer and harder and persist in the face of challenges. You’re also motivated to learn new things. Natalie points to her younger brother as an example: He loved music as a child, which motivated him not only to learn to play musical instruments, but also to learn about electronics and the physics of sound (so that he could record, amplify, and manipulate music and sounds). The connection between learning and motivation goes in both directions. As the Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote: “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
The usual antonym for the word “spiritual” is “material.” That at least is what I believed when I began this inquiry—that the whole issue with spirituality turned on a question of metaphysics. Now I’m inclined to think a much better and certainly more useful antonym for “spiritual” might be “egotistical.” Self and Spirit define the opposite ends of a spectrum, but that spectrum needn’t reach clear to the heavens to have meaning for us. It can stay right here on earth. When the ego dissolves, so does a bounded conception not only of our self but of our self-interest. What emerges in its place is invariably a broader, more openhearted and altruistic—that is, more spiritual—idea of what matters in life. One in which a new sense of connection, or love, however defined, seems to figure prominently.
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
Recipe for greatness: Become just a teeny bit better than you were last year. Repeat every year.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
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