One of the main points of Four Thousand Weeks is that being present and feeling alive in the things we do is more important than what we do or how much.
Brad Stulberg described this spirit as heartfelt excellence.
“Excellence is a process of becoming. The goal is to become and to grow and to evolve and to learn about yourself along the way. Like, that is genuine, heartfelt excellence.
And for some of us, it’s going to be five NBA champions. For others, it’s going to be a completed marathon. And for other, it might be a wooden table that no one sees but us in our living room.
But the process of making that table brought us satisfaction and aliveness. And the other people that come through our house and they eat on that table, it brings them joy too.”
How many though is easy to count, is I count it.
Social importance is easy to see in culture, and it calls me.
Aliveness and heart are harder to hear in the cacophony, but these are the most important.
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