Minutes of a Monday #25

Brain Food > purpose

“Unlike animals, with their instincts to guide them past dangers, we humans have to rely upon our conscious decisions. We do the best we can when it comes to our career path and handling the inevitable setbacks in life. But in the back of our minds we can sense an overall lack of direction, as we are pulled this way and that way by our moods and by the opinion of others.

How did we end up in this job in this place? Such drifting can lead to dead ends.

The way to avoid such a fate is to develop a sense of purpose, discovering our calling in life and using such knowledge to guide us in our decisions. We come to know ourselves more deeply – our tastes and inclinations. We trust ourselves, knowing which battels and detours to avoid. Even in our moments of doubt even our failures have a purpose – to toughen us up. With such energy and direction, our actions have unstoppable force.”

Robert Greene on the Law of Aimlessness taken from The Concise Laws of Human Nature.

Soul Food

“You know, no one’s really that great. You know who’s great? The people that just put in a tremendous amount of hours. It’s a game of tonnage." Jerry Seinfeld

LOL

South Park doing what South Park does:

Appendix

“It is a terrible deception of love that it begins by engaging us in play not with a woman of the external world, but with a doll fashioned in our brain – the only woman moreover that we have always at our disposal, the only one we shall ever possess.” Marcel Proust

AOB

Have a great week - Niall