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I don’t know when I became conditioned to think about life in milestones, but that’s what I’ve always done. A fun, little paint-by-numbers game where the grand picture had been determined from the very beginning.

Isamu Noguchi, Peking Drawing (man sitting), 1930 I don’t know when I became conditioned to think about life in milestones, but that’s what I’ve always done. A fun, little paint-by-numbers game where the grand picture had already been designed from the very start. Milestones can be a fantastic way to architect your life—breaking it down into pieces, creating opportunities for incremental dopamine hits along the way, finding joy and satisfaction when the final image is in place. I wonder though, what happens when life becomes less certain, the big picture less clear. For instance, there…

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