The only thing differentiating the extraordinary from the ordinary is frequency, quantity and volume. If you were a Sherpa climbing Mt. Everest every day, helping tourists get their one minute at the pinnacle. What would the value of summiting Everest be to you? I remember reading Bernard Moitessier's "The Long Way", where he describes being … Continue reading The Extraordinary Intruding on the Ordinary
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Letter of Recommendation: Washing Dishes – The New York Times
"...a life under constant threat of novelty isn’t a life; it’s exhaustion. Washing dishes by hand, I give myself the chance to remember that this is wrong — that most of life is ordinary; that ordinary isn’t the enemy but instead something nourishing and unavoidable, the bedrock upon which the rest of experience ebbs and … Continue reading Letter of Recommendation: Washing Dishes – The New York Times
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