⭐️ Southstar

Book of TREE 1.93

Everyone has something to teach you. This is not hyperbole.

Once in a while, someone teaches you something so profound that it sets the direction for your life. Or it becomes a guiding principle for the choices you make. We call that a northstar.

Once in a while, someone does something so profoundly opposite to what you want to do and who you want to be, that it too becomes a guiding principle. As in, I’m not sure what I’m going to do, but I know it’s not [thing that person did]. That’s a southstar.

Everyone has something to teach you. It’s not always a good thing. But there’s always something, if you’re paying attention.

No smoke detector in the venue.

One of my major southstars is ‘should’. There are a million people telling me what I should do. Most of them are wrong. The ones who are right annoy me so much I struggle to learn anything from them. I decided several years ago that, whatever I do, I’m not going to be the guy who tells people what they should do.

How am I supposed to know what you should do?! I will tell you what works for me. I will tell you what I understand the universe to be. What you should do with that is none of my business.

Grow slowly
Jeff