“Taking an unfocussed approach to your personal work may be riskier and you might not be able to monetise it (at least not so directly) as the major personal projects, but it is more likely to teach you about you.”-David Palumbo [...]
“As we get older, we need to master the exact opposite of what we’ve spent a lifetime pursuing. We need to master irrelevancy. This is not only a retirement issue. Many of us are unhealthily — and ultimately unhappily — tied to mattering. It’s leaving us overwhelmed and over-busy, responding to every request, ring and ping with the urgency of a fireman responding to a six-alarm fire. Are we really that necessary?”-Peter Bregman [...]