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Sophie Fuji

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A perspective on decisions that feel big. Please reach out with any thoughts, critiques, or further reading on Twitter. Making seemingly harrowing decisions comes down to one thing: how you preserve the artefact of your current self. Making big decisions undoubtedly changes who you are, but deciding what you want to preserve and what you want to test comes with every iteration of life. When you're in college, the first decision feels larger than anything. Over time, relative to every decision you've had to make, each one becomes less consequential, so the first decision feels bigger than any other one will. My thoughts, aggregated from many conversations with people who have smarter thoughts than me: Choose something that expands your definition of yourself. Don’t limit yourself to who you are right now and trying to upkeep this persona. Life isn’t interesting if you’re always trying to balance inputs and outputs to remain where you are, life becomes interesting when you try out every

Self-expansion, not self-limitation - Sophie Fuji ← Back Self-expansion, not self-limitation Making seemingly harrowing decisions comes down to one thing: how you preserve the artefact of your current self. Making big decisions undoubtedly changes who you are, but deciding what you want to preserve and what you want to test comes with every iteration of life. When you're in college, the first decision feels larger than anything. Over time, relative to every decision you've had to make, each one becomes less consequential, so the first decision feels bigger than any other one will. My thoughts,

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