wanted stress

 – James Bach

To participate wholeheartedly in something means to be self-motivated and self-directed, intensely and genuinely enthusiastic. If we’re forced to do something, or if we do it halfheartedly, we’re not really participating. If we don’t care how it all turns out, we’re not really participating. If we’re passively waiting it out, we’re not really participating. And the less we fully participate in our everyday lives, the fewer opportunities we have to be happy. It’s that plain and simple. 

People don’t have a propensity toward laziness, they have a propensity toward hard work, but hard work that matters to them.                                                                                                                   – Jane McGonigal

Tory calls this – wanted stress vs unwanted stress (from busy work, or useless work). – Cristian says.. if i want ness.

2 pages from a be you book:

We’re thinking if we can hasten/accelerate the time between finding the thing you can’t not do and finding your people to do it with.. (perhaps with an app) we’ll create have healthier, happier people. Not to mention a better world.

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Suggested book reads:
James Bach –  Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar – (self-education & the pursuit of passion)

Jane McGonigal –  Reality is Broken (things that matter are by default a multi-player game)

James Paul Gee – The Anti Education Era – (Human minds/brains/bodies do not work well when they are sick. Perhaps the deepest human sickness is a lack of agency, a lack of the feeling that one counts and matters.)