Sarah Lewis
Sarah Lewis
done thrive stills
We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.
pain punishment rewards
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.
world mastery labels
Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'
mastery arriving reaching
Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.
motivational distance winning
A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)
hard-work simple persistence
Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.