if experience is the goal, then you always win

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how to reinvent yourself: ft. the Miles Davis method, Georg Lichtenberg's Waste Books, Cate Hall's You Can Just Do Things

You can measure internal congruence by the lag between desire and action. We all have friends who want to change something about their lives, sometimes harboring secret desires for years, yet stay static in place. Others upend their lives on a whim. Reinvent. Start anew. What separates them? My hunch is that the latter view experience as a goal in itself, where most of us see-saw between rational pro and cons lists, or terminal value calculations. And if experience is the goal: whatever happens in the process, you always win. Earlier this year I had an inkling that my writing interests were…

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