No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.*
Carl Jung
He’d read The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People
but not Steven Covey’s sequel The Eighth Habit–
“What’s the eighth habit?”
“Find your voice and help others to find theirs.”
He’d come to make a survey of our home
but we spent more time talking about the books
on my shelves, our reading habits, and the work that I do.
He’s gone now,
On to his next appointment, but it was
an enjoyable way to start the day.
*Quoted in James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter: On thinking long-term, how to attract like-minded people, and one sign of mental toughness.
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