DieEmpty by Todd Henry 04
▶ 📚 Radiology & Beyond: Weekly Insights from My Reading Journey 📖
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#DieEmpty by Todd Henry 📚 challenges us to live a life of purpose, creativity, and impact 📖
Captions:
🐝 [“Seven Deadly Sins of Mediocrity”: Common and destructive slipping points”
#Aimlessness #Boredom #Comfort #Delusion #Ego #Fear #Guardedness]
📙 “Aimlessness is a destructive force. It removes both the joy of success and the gratification that comes from hard, focused work.” 💡
🎯 [To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them]
💹 [Identifying a through line around which to devote your focus, time, and energy is a journey, not a onetime task. The process requires persistence and a good deal of self-awareness]
💫 [The problem with the advice “follow your passion” is that it frames the conversation as if you are the center of the world, or as if a state of joy, or fulfillment is the objective of life.]
💫 [When this is your mindset, you will ultimately spend your life chasing after the next buzz when things get dull. The most #fulfilled people approach their work, in any context, with the question “What can I add?” rather than “What can I get?” They choose worthy battles, then engage in them with everything they have]
😥 [Priorities are difficult. When you choose one thing to focus on, you automatically choose not to focus on others. This is why some people fall into aimlessness: they don’t like the discomfort of having to say no to very good things that aren’t the most important things. They’d rather be mediocre at a lot of things than take a real swing at things they care about and risk failure]
🍎 [To avoid aimlessness, you have to stand for something]
► [Act with urgency and diligence today to define your battles, then carefully allocate your focus, time, and energy on things that matter to you. Run to the battle]
Reflections:
💡 Fight your battle, no one else is assigned to it yet !
