Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
- This is a super mindfuck book for me. Because it shows not only Objectives are useless, but it can be harmful. It shows how uncertain the future is and how seeking for control is harmful.
Objectives limits us from exploring creatively and serendipitous discovery
“greatness is possible if you are willing to stop demanding what that greatness should be”
- Sometimes I feel like I want to do push up but I did not do it because it was not my objective for the day
- So having objective can make me weaker
- I need to stop demanding greatness just because I have objective
- I need to realize that greatness can be achieved
“Aren’t the greatest moments and epiphanies in life so often unexpected and unplanned?”
Even the first time I found risetku is just by having fun around the framework react.
Trust your gut instinct
“ If Johnny Depp had not wanted to become a musician, he may never have become an actor.”
JK Rowling was a bilingual secretary, then taught English in Portugal.
Haruki Murakami ran a coffee house and jazz bar. “Murakami himself is convinced that without running the bar he never would have become a writer because it gave him the time to observe and brood.”
“Harland David “Colonel” Sanders cooked for his family as a six-year old after his father’s death, but would not make a living out of it until he was 40”
“The guitar’s all very well, John, but you’ll never make a living out of it” - John Lennon’s Mom
“Somehow successful people are open to falling off the path.”
2⁄3 adults has a serendipitous career
“not trying to find something can often lead to the most exciting discoveries”
Book
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman