“There’s no promise that the world cares about your mission.“
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Notes
An absurdist series of questions and answers around bicycle (and unicycle) riding as a “mission.”
- It may take months (not minutes) to learn
- You may need to fall
- No one rides blindfolded
- There’s no answering an appeal to an “inner muse” (“Oh.” lol)
- A unicycle will never win a bike race
- Someone else’s success (especially unicorn success) doesn’t guarantee your own
- There’s no promise that the world cares about your mission (especially if it’s absurd?)
Thoughts
I’m committing a bit of a “heresy of paraphrase” here: the meaning of the chapter is in the conversation. I’m not sure my bullet points even help.
I suppose my take-away is that the practice, whatever that ends up being, must still be tied in some way to the real world, not a world which imagines (metaphorically) a unicycle “defeating all comers.” I’m sure there’s a balance to be found—one doesn’t want to be overly limited by what has worked in the past, but one doesn’t want to be a nut case, either.
This series is meant to capture my thoughts as I work through Seth Godin’s The Practice. It’s a book with over 200 (very short) chapters, which I hope to work through and, I further hope, to implement over time.
If you’re interested in more of Godin’s ideas, or my thoughts about them, you can check out this collection of posts. Note that if you’re more interested in the former, you should probably get Godin’s book and read it yourself; my notes will be both incomplete and idiosyncratic, and my thoughts will relate to my own experience.
But if my thoughts resonate with you, or if you think I’m just silly, I welcome your comments.