You might be interested in the term “thrutopia”, which tries to achieve a similar thing and is gaining traction in semi-adjacent circles
On flourishing v. surviving:
I heard this story from Joe Hudson about a tennis player doing practice. She could hit the basket smth like 6⁄10 times. One day her coach put a coin instead and told her to hit the coin. She never hit the coin, but she would have hit the basket 9⁄10 times.
Where we aim can matter a lot for the outcomes we get, even without reaching “the goal” (same as it matters what questions you ask).
Joe’s point is also about what we get from ‘looking through’. He’s an exec coach in Silicon Valley and has done venture capital, and he says something similar about the people that manage to build billion$ companies.
It’s always about something more, not just making money or being big. (fx being the best, solving a problem, making a name for yourself, etc.)
You might be interested in the term “thrutopia”, which tries to achieve a similar thing and is gaining traction in semi-adjacent circles
On flourishing v. surviving:
I heard this story from Joe Hudson about a tennis player doing practice. She could hit the basket smth like 6⁄10 times. One day her coach put a coin instead and told her to hit the coin. She never hit the coin, but she would have hit the basket 9⁄10 times.
Where we aim can matter a lot for the outcomes we get, even without reaching “the goal” (same as it matters what questions you ask).
Joe’s point is also about what we get from ‘looking through’. He’s an exec coach in Silicon Valley and has done venture capital, and he says something similar about the people that manage to build billion$ companies.
It’s always about something more, not just making money or being big. (fx being the best, solving a problem, making a name for yourself, etc.)