SirFignuts

jingc:

The young Jerry Seinfeld’s scriptwriting technique involved marking an X on a calendar for every day he sat and typed. His goal was an unbroken chain of Xs. If he’d aimed instead to write brilliant jokes, he’d have been distracted and intimidated.

[W]e can’t control outcomes in any sphere of life. All you can do - and therefore the only responsibility you have - is to put in the time and effort: into relationships, parenting, finding happiness, whatever. The actual result, in a profound sense, is none of your business. Take this one step further and it becomes positively meditative: a matter, in the words of the Vietnamese writer Thich Nhat Hanh, of “doing the dishes just to do the dishes”, not to achieve clean dishes. Which is an outlook on life in general that’s worth considering, even if you own a dishwasher.