Focus on the process not the goal

Read enough books and everything starts blurring together. I rarely recognize a good point in a book that I haven’t seen some version of before in another book.

Stumbling on the video below reminded me of the book Zen and the Art of Archery where the author learns the same lesson of focusing on the process, not the goal.

The advice in the book also reminded me of something Viktor Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning:

“Don’t aim at success-the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more...