Well thanks. I didn't exactly need that. I was planning to subscribe anyway. The first part of your article made me want to read the second part, so I ponied up.
I've mostly felt that I've been riding a wave, not surfing, but impulsively grabbing what life presents when I can within the bounds of a long happy marriage in a big expensive city. I'm thinking boundaries exist whatever one's situation. You've avoided some (many, most) by surfing in Bali. You're happy. I think the poverty stricken masses I saw in India in 1971 were as happy as any peoples I've seen anywhere. (I was there in the dry season.) So maybe, I'm thinking as I scribble this, the most important part of Living Without Goals is 'Living' rather than 'Without Goals'. As Philip Roth wrote; better to be a 'liver than a pancreas'. So where does that skill come from?
At its foundation I think the skill is detachment. Being willing to let go of egoic ideas that we've probably gotten from society, like drive a BMW, buy a boat, get promoted to VP, what have you. Many people become attached these goals and can't let them go when life presents them with a different opportunity.
Sounds like you have it figured though, and indeed you didn't need this article! My next paid article is going to be about the deep state, maybe that will be more interesting. Ty for subscribing 🙏
A good point about saying "yes" to opportunities. I think that is separate from goals. If I had never been open to opportunities, I would never have learned how to start a website, smoke a cigar, or write a book.
The criticism against the motivational industrial complex is valid. One of the hardest lessons I learned was to trust my gut/intuition.
Ty! Yes it's not so easy to let go and trust that everything will work out. But the opportunities that come along that we never planned for, like writing a book, are often excellent.
Well thanks. I didn't exactly need that. I was planning to subscribe anyway. The first part of your article made me want to read the second part, so I ponied up.
I've mostly felt that I've been riding a wave, not surfing, but impulsively grabbing what life presents when I can within the bounds of a long happy marriage in a big expensive city. I'm thinking boundaries exist whatever one's situation. You've avoided some (many, most) by surfing in Bali. You're happy. I think the poverty stricken masses I saw in India in 1971 were as happy as any peoples I've seen anywhere. (I was there in the dry season.) So maybe, I'm thinking as I scribble this, the most important part of Living Without Goals is 'Living' rather than 'Without Goals'. As Philip Roth wrote; better to be a 'liver than a pancreas'. So where does that skill come from?
At its foundation I think the skill is detachment. Being willing to let go of egoic ideas that we've probably gotten from society, like drive a BMW, buy a boat, get promoted to VP, what have you. Many people become attached these goals and can't let them go when life presents them with a different opportunity.
Sounds like you have it figured though, and indeed you didn't need this article! My next paid article is going to be about the deep state, maybe that will be more interesting. Ty for subscribing 🙏
A good point about saying "yes" to opportunities. I think that is separate from goals. If I had never been open to opportunities, I would never have learned how to start a website, smoke a cigar, or write a book.
The criticism against the motivational industrial complex is valid. One of the hardest lessons I learned was to trust my gut/intuition.
Congratulations on going paid!
Ty! Yes it's not so easy to let go and trust that everything will work out. But the opportunities that come along that we never planned for, like writing a book, are often excellent.