deciding what matters - by katie - unfurled spirals

We're surrounded daily by an unnerving array of choices. Sometimes choice is empowering. Sometimes choice is paralyzing. Choice creates opportunity, mobility, freedom. It also creates room for doubt, for fear, for regret. Commitment, on the other hand, has compounding gains, an internal network effect of new learnings and new connections.

We're surrounded daily by an unnerving array of choices. Sometimes choice is empowering. Sometimes choice is paralyzing. Choice creates opportunity, mobility, freedom. It also creates room for doubt, for fear, for regret. Commitment, on the other hand, has compounding gains, an internal network effect of new learnings and new connections. I crave commitment, but I also want it to be easy, to be passionate. Passion implies that you are compelled by a type of magnetism that is out of your control. That committing to it is easy because it was what you were created to do. I want to be so…

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