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The Cost of Adding Extrinsic Value to Your Passion

It really should be simple, how a person engages in an activity that s/he loves. But my journey has been so twisted, for seemingly insignificant reasons, that I kind of feel embarrassed and comical. Along the way I took in messages like “it’s not OK to do things I enjoy” …

June 25, 2020 June 25, 2020 Ari's Diary / For Musicians  guitar / mastery / passion
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The Parable of a Rock (n) Roller

So you’re on top of a big hill, and you come by an almost perfectly round rock. You look at the rock, and know that it’ll be exhilarating to push it down the hill.  It’ll be thrilling to see it rolling down on its own, running beside it, feeling the …

July 28, 2017 July 28, 2017 Life Insights  dreams / mastery / pursuing dreams
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Mastering the Art of Life

You get better at doing something the more time you spend doing it.  That’s very obvious, but that’s why it’s important to choose a job carefully, because you’re choosing to get good at it, over something else. But no matter what your job is, you’re always doing life.  So you’d …

December 9, 2016 December 10, 2016 Life Insights  mastery / mindfulness
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