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Mary Oliver -

“When you read the poem thoughtfully, you are a scholar. When you read the poem thoughtfully and feelingly, you are a scholar and a participant.”

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On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by

Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife,
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life,
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

farther and farther away from such feeling? That instead life feels a series of regrets. A life unlived, as Adam Phillips and Ogden put it, and the possibility of a life not yet lived, as I believed Mary Oliver once put it.

limit our awareness to the potential impact of the seemingly non-choice we were making. What made it so that, for my professors and others, life feels congruent to their values, to who they feel they are and what they’d like to be? And what made it so that, for some of us, we seem to be

They have their own limitations and shortcomings and skeletons. But, I do wonder about what made it so they made their choices and stayed on the paths that they wanted to be on. In converse, what made it so that some of us compromise, give up our choices, not realizing we had done so,

are the difficulties with choosing. We know Dostoevsky had written about the temptation to abdicate our freedom. That it is too frightening. Too heavy. Freud, too, spoke of the path of least resistance and ways we compromise.

Now, as I get older, I realize that my professors too are human

positivity kind that seem to run amok. They have their own share of demons (or, if perhaps more appropriately, daimons)

I think of them often when I reflect on my life. I think about existentialism and its wonderful emphasis on the freedom to choose. Somewhere there, too,

I have two professors that have been beloved throughout the years

They have their differences but they seem to enjoy living (or rather, being alive). They seem to be enjoy their lives. At least from the outside

Since you don’t know them, let me assume that they are not the toxic or naive

Mary Oliver -

“Listen,
the heart-shackles are not, as you think,
death, illness, pain,
unrequited hope, not loneliness, but

lassitude, rue, vainglory, fear, anxiety,
selfishness.”

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“All Sisyphus’ silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him. His rock is his thing.”

“One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks.”

“It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile sufferings. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.”

“It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the feeling of the absurd springs from happiness. “I conclude that all is well,” says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man.”

“The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

“Ancient wisdom confirms modern heroism.”

“that is the hour of consciousness. At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock.”

Camus - Myth of Sisyphus

“It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me…I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end. That hour like a breathing-space which returns as surely as his suffering,

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Give me the wrong cover, I will demand a refund

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I like to think of myself as someone who knows depth, who appreciates good writing and literature. Who is, you know, deeeeeep

But damn I get fucking disappointed when a book doesn’t come in the latest cover that I was expecting 😅

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It’s a weird feeling of listening to music of a past age/generation, evoking memories of younger selves, then looking across time, only to realize that certain artists have passed, and some groups have ceased to exist where they just weren’t meant to last, regardless of how talented.

I fucked up a recipe that only took 90 secs because…I forgot to add water. Fucking A

I love books

to train yourself for a consistent level of energy and effort.

Condition yourself to be relentless.”

short bursts. Some people can procrastinate and then summon superhuman focus “when it counts” because of a deadline. But I believe it always “counts.”

It’s much better - in four quarters and the across the long run of your career -

Steph Curry

“There will always be stronger, faster guys out there who try to make my life miserable. But I try to counter that with never staying in the same spot for more than a second…

The point of conditioning is that it allows you to do whatever your best thing is all the time, not just in

Steph Curry

You can be so busy trying to absorb lessons early in your career that you don’t realize it when you start to meet the moment…You’re no longer struggling for answers and hoping for the best. Now you believe. You are supposed to be successful.