“The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.” MightPainSuccessGoalDifferencesSecretAchievePossibilityEnthusiasmExcitementEngagedSecret To SuccessAchieving Your Goals Author:Hal Elrod
“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.” AgeProcessDifferencesDutyTwentiesLimitationEngagedWho We AreFortyDiscoveringImpunity Author:W. H. Auden
“I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world.” WorldFactsUseDifferencesAwarenessGeniusBrilliantEngagedProseMaking A DifferenceDaring Author:George Saunders