these questions: What do I value most? What kind of life do I want? What do I want my life to look like, to feel like? Who do I wish to be? - Michael Gerber

There is no such thing as undesirable work,” he continued. “There are only people who see certain kinds of work as undesirable. People who use every excuse in the world to justify why they have to do work they hate to do. People who look upon their work as a punishment for who they are and where they stand in the world, rather than as an opportunity to see themselves as they really are.

What was important was how seriously I took to playing the game he had created here.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse,