Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I think you basically can't go wrong trying to understand your desires, as long as you also understand that they're not all necessarily stable & it's possible to be wrong about them. This is true of your destination & path, too, but there are additional risks there...

I think destination-focus is often preferable to path-focus because it (a) gets you closer to thinking about desires & (b) gives you a reference point, coordinates that you can notice yourself moving closer to or further from. Still, the failure mode you're noting is very real

Yeah I think one should basically seek to have fun/do what they want right now and destinations,paths,etc. should just be theories on how to act so you can have fun indefinitely. Or more and more fun as you go.

I think time horizons are being assumed that I'm not meaning to imply. Something like writing a book is more a destination than desire; it might satisfy x desire for you, but it's prob not the only way to satisfy x. "I want to spend a lot of time building stuff" could be a desire