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Sean Goodwin on X: "Christopher Alexander on standards you hold yourself to https://t.co/6VXhabkh12" / X
Sean Goodwin on X: "Christopher Alexander on standards you hold yourself to https://t.co/6VXhabkh12" / X

You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.

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The Shift Journal on X: "Just do things… https://t.co/T9hP5KSYU8" / X
The Shift Journal on X: "Just do things… https://t.co/T9hP5KSYU8" / X
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be confident in the depth of your curiosity not in the depth of your expertise

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To be successful you have to be different

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You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you

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I prefer real life

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it’s called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don’t care, but because you care too much.

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