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My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.

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I recently saw this video and loved it. I took the first year after graduation easy, but over the last year I’ve been building up my tempo again. I realized that I really don’t like drifting. I want to feel like I’m acting with purpose, that I know what I’m doing, that I have a goal and a future to work towards. I realized that I like working with deadlines and schedules and while it can feel limiting and stressful at times, in the long run it helps me stay mentally calm and keeps my energies focused. I think that it takes a while for us to really discover ourselves after years of being driven by school schedules and requirements. At the same time, that discovery is a conscious process. We don’t suddenly wake up one day knowing what to do — we have to want it and work toward it. We need breaks and time to relax and unwind, but I think in the day-to-day we need purpose and drive, we need a reason to live and get up in the morning, and it has to be our reason.

I’m almost half-way through my twenties and I’ve only just found a purpose and goal to work towards. The journey to this point has been rough at times, but I’ve learned a lot and I’m a better person because of it. Good luck on your journey! No need to rush, but don’t stay in one place for too long.

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You’ve stumbled on an interesting dichotomy with your heuristic #2 ( Specialize in Work, Generalize in Play ). However, I think you’re a bit off the mark. I don’t think a strict separation of work and play is the best way to go. In fact, when I think of people like Feynman (and the happy high achievers I know in real life), they do have a bunch of serious hobbies. But instead of dividing up their life into work and play, they seem to be pursuing a higher order unification of the two. I think that is one of the keys to living a fulfilling and successful life. By contrast I’m increasingly convinced that “work-life balance” represents a false dichotomy.

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My family loves Superman because he is an unrealistic and impossible creature. We know that. We know he sets an impossible bar, but we need that bar because that is how we dream big, that is how we aspire to something great, and that is why we choose hope.