The next and most necessary thing
Notes on finding your own way
“If you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.”
— Carl G Jung
In moments where I don’t know what to do with my life, I try to remember the only thing I know to be true: take the next, small step.
It sounds like obvious advice. We might have heard it a hundred times over. And yet, in the moments we need it most, it’s often overlooked in favour of something more complex, more certain.
It’s almost as if we believe only elaborate advice can be salient. I don’t have time to take the next small step when I have my entire life to figure out!
I personally spent a long time looking for more detailed instructions for my life. Yet as my book explores, I didn’t find any.
After speaking to hundreds of creative individuals that I admired, it became clear that we must find our own way.
There is no prescription, no blueprint—our lives are composed by taking the next small step, and then the next.
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