To live well and prosper, first know your natural bent, your star, your genius, and the place suitable to these; there live. Follow your natural profession.*
Marsilio Ficino

I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.**
Hospice patients

The way to lean,
The direction to travel,
The impact to bring,
The audience to serve –
These are present to you right now;
Don’t be duped by the
unnatural professions.^

*Anna Katharina Schaffner’s The Art of Self Development;
**Daniel Pink’s The Power of Regret; collected by hospice nurse Bronnie Ware;
^It is possible, and more likely that we will, bring more of our natural profession to work in the unnatural, though it is greater than the unnatural in the same way the infinite game is greater than the finite.