18 Years of The Marginalian.
16. Unself. Nothing is more tedious than self-concern — the antipode of wonder.
14. Choose joy.
9. Don’t be afraid to be an idealist.
8. Seek out what magnifies your spirit.
7. “Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.” This is borrowed from the wise and wonderful Debbie Millman, for it’s hard to better capture something so fundamental yet so impatiently overlooked in our culture of immediacy. The myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — as well as a reminder that our present definition of success needs serious retuning. The flower doesn’t go from bud to blossom in one spritely burst and yet, as a culture, we’re disinterested in the tedium of the blossoming. But that’s where all the real magic unfolds in the making of one’s character and destiny.
I might have chose well.
