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The Art of Living Well

Some quotes I love from Umair Haque’s (Author of Betterness: Economic for Humans, ranked one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50) article on the Harvard Business Review.

 “What’s important is that what you’re doing matters — to yourself, to the people you love, and to something bigger, whether your community, society, or even humanity.”

“Choose fulfillment and passion over “money” and “success.” The latter follow the former — and without the former, the latter are empty.”

“When you’re sorting through your passions, consider what you have the potential to be not merely mediocre, but world-beating, at. And as you refine your choices, consider which are going to matter most in the sense of the greatest good for the greatest number — perhaps for the longest time.” 

“Mediocrity isn’t a quest to be pursued — but a derelict deathtrap to be detonated into oblivion.”

“Your youth should be spent pursuing your passion — not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big — and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.”

“When you fail, and fail big — forgive. Forgive the people around you. Forgive yourself. Examine the past, but don’t let it imprison you. You can dwell on your failure for years, and turn a trauma into a crisis. Or you can gently remember that mistakes aren’t the end of the world, but the beginning of wisdom — and firmly step forward into possibility.”

“As the great poet Antonio Machado once wrote: “walker, there is no path; the path is made by walking.” 

Read article here: 

http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/12/mastering_the_art_of_living_me.html