Thoughts on Striving

  1. A Confluence of Desires

    Simply making a list of the things you’d like to change about your life can be remarkably cathartic and show you some patterns to make achieving them less daunting.

  2. For Whom the Bell Tolls

    The virtue of a goal is not to be found as much in its accomplishment as in the direction and meaning it can give a life.

  3. The Great Gatsby

    People can do awful things to get what they want, and they may still turn out worse for getting it.

  4. 25

    Reflections on completing my twenty-fifth year on earth

  5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

    Heroism is much more fraught for real people than it is for superheroes.

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