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		gottorf on May 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ambitious but at peace > Don’t have “end goals”. > Instead, have a direction, or preferably more than one. Strive to make progress in those directions and celebrate your progress. I like putting the same concept in these terms: most things in life are a process, not a state.

wrs on May 17, 2024 [–]

Yes indeed. It’s still good to celebrate when you reach a particularly good state during the process. Just don’t overconstrain the set of potential good states ahead of time, because the process might take you somewhere else.

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