The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life

by Chris Guillebeau

Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn’t exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority. When you venture to new lands for the first time, it is a big deal.

Genuinely living for something, day after day, is much more valuable than looking for the blaze of glory at the end.

“The game never really ends,” she continued in the last page of her memoir before the final trip to Africa. “It’s simply a matter of perspective. There’s always, as long as one lives, some new place to go, some exciting new thing to find.” Yet