"There’s a deep aliveness to feeling life as intensely as possible, even if that means misery at points. Across the course of my life, I’d love to feel more joy and calm but not if that comes at the expense of intensity."
Acceleration > Velocity. Going from 0 to 60 in a really fast car is completely different than cruising in an airplane at 560 mph. Those activities that make you feel great, shitty, whatever... are the things you put effort into and then fail or succeed or kinda succeed or whatever. But the effort->result-> growth is the acceleration part. Velocity is just siting around repeatedly doing things you're already good at. joy and calm come at the lulls between the cycles of the other things if you don't overschedule and give yourself recovery.
"There’s a deep aliveness to feeling life as intensely as possible, even if that means misery at points. Across the course of my life, I’d love to feel more joy and calm but not if that comes at the expense of intensity."
Acceleration > Velocity. Going from 0 to 60 in a really fast car is completely different than cruising in an airplane at 560 mph. Those activities that make you feel great, shitty, whatever... are the things you put effort into and then fail or succeed or kinda succeed or whatever. But the effort->result-> growth is the acceleration part. Velocity is just siting around repeatedly doing things you're already good at. joy and calm come at the lulls between the cycles of the other things if you don't overschedule and give yourself recovery.
Love this point, thanks for the comment :)