I wish I’d had the ears to hear in the year or five after graduating from college: primarily, that we never end up anywhere near where we’d expected, and that most of us would have been a lot happier a lot faster if we’d realized that we were often obsessing over the wrong things—starting with how much the world should care about our major.

I wish I’d had the ears to hear in the year or five after graduating from college: primarily, that we never end up anywhere near where we’d expected, and that most of us would have been a lot happier a lot faster if we’d realized that we were often obsessing over the wrong things—starting with how much the world should care about our major.

—43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work