The Climb #6 – Following My Energy Instead of Fighting My Wiring
For 51 years I tried to make myself operate like someone else. But it turns out, following my energy wasn't the problem - fighting it was.
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For 51 years I tried to make myself operate like someone else. But it turns out, following my energy wasn't the problem - fighting it was.
I saw this Steve Jobs quote today and it hit different: “Most people don’t care about craft. They care about shortcuts. But great work is never done by people looking for shortcuts. Great work is done by people who care deeply about details that no one else even notices.” Yeah. That’s me. And if I’m ... <a title="Most People Care About Shortcuts. I Can’t Stop Caring About Details." class="read-more" href="https://paullinehan.co/most-people-care-about-shortcuts-i-cant-stop-caring-about-details/" aria-label="Read more about Most People Care About Shortcuts. I Can’t Stop Caring About Details.">Read more</a>
I spent a lot of years chasing the kind of skills the world told me were important. You know the list. Job skills. Productivity. Efficiency. Checking boxes. Hitting deadlines. Being “a team player”. All the stuff that makes you useful to a company but kind of forgettable everywhere else. And yeah, those things matter in ... <a title="The Skills That Actually Matter" class="read-more" href="https://paullinehan.co/the-skills-that-actually-matter/" aria-label="Read more about The Skills That Actually Matter">Read more</a>
Most men don’t break because life is hard. We break because we spend decades pretending we’re not hurting. We grow up too fast. We carry too much. We hide what matters most. We bury what scares us. We armor up until we can’t breathe anymore. Then one day we look in the mirror and don’t ... <a title="The Climb Manifesto" class="read-more" href="https://paullinehan.co/the-climb-manifesto/" aria-label="Read more about The Climb Manifesto">Read more</a>
For every man who's ever felt like he lived at full volume in a world built for half.