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John Warner · 30 Aug 2026

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  1. Our reading

    One should be heedless in the pursuit of desires while ensuring those desires do not become the direct target of one's efforts.

    Their wordsThat you must be both heedless in the pursuit of your desires, but to make sure that these desires do not become the direct target of your efforts?

  2. Our reading

    The pursuit of excellence in an art can require a radical compression of attention and self.

    Their wordsBut the radical compression of his attention and sense of himself have allowed him to become a transcendent practitioner of an art-something few of us get to be.

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