What About the Magic?
A Marine Gets Two Salaries
My Years in the Wilderness
“In order to achieve flow — magic, the Zone — we start by being common and ordinary and workmanlike.”
A Marine gets a financial salary and a psychological salary — the pride, the honor, the belonging. You and I as builders receive two salaries as well, and most of us can’t count on the conventional one. When we do the work for itself alone, it turns into a practice — and the years in the wilderness of executing as a professional become the daily discipline that saves us from a wasted life.
1 - Have you ever been in the wilderness of life? Are you in it now? Tell us about it — and the disciplines helping you come out of it.
2 - What is the psychological salary that will sustain you for the long haul in turning pro — the thing deeper than money that gets you through the grind?
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