In fact, trying to optimize for all of my values, including Fun and Friendship and Romance and Reading Haruki Murakami’s Novels Every Night, was more ambitious than just settling for mere Ambition, as paradoxically as that might sound.
I completely agree. It would be all too easy to settle into a single Thing in life, devote all my energy to it and essentially put on a pair of blinders. It's only by spreading myself across multiple domains have I started feeling a sense of meaning come from the way in which each connects to create some kind of Meaning Web in my life. But it is way more work.
I completely agree. It would be all too easy to settle into a single Thing in life, devote all my energy to it and essentially put on a pair of blinders. It's only by spreading myself across multiple domains have I started feeling a sense of meaning come from the way in which each connects to create some kind of Meaning Web in my life. But it is way more work.