Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

by Joshua Fields Millburn

Progress requires practice and dedication and, to a certain extent, a healthy obsession. Hence, passion is a mixture of love and obsession.

It occurs to me there are likely two reasons for this work/passion phenomenon, the epidemic of imbalance.

what do you do & confusing "excitement" with "passion"

Excitement comes and goes; it wanes when times get hard, when the work gets tough, when creative flow turns into drudgery. True passion, however, arises after you’ve put in the long hours necessary to become a skilled craftsman, a skillset you can then leverage to have an impact, to gain autonomy and respect, to shape and control your destiny.

passion isn’t followed, it’s cultivated. The

People often avoid the truth for fear of destroying the illusions they’ve built.

most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding.