I love those who yearn for the impossible.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Wanting something that cannot quite be had changes the person who wants it. People who aim only at what they are sure of stay inside a small, tidy life, and they never find out what they could have carried. The reaching itself does the work, whether or not the thing is ever reached. What looks like foolishness from outside is often just a larger appetite.

Notice where you have trimmed a want down to what seems reasonable. Let one of those stay full size this week, and take the first ordinary step toward it without needing to believe you will arrive.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What do you want that sensible people call impossible?

MORE IN AMBITION, SUCCESS & LEGACY

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.