#116 | William Blake’s The Garden of Love
Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. — Stephen King
The Garden of Love by William Blake
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
My week in books
Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet. This book was pretty revelatory and I recommend it to anyone starting anything — especially if they are at the early stages of their journey. The following quote is widely applicable to life, not only work:
“Focus can be difficult, especially for entrepreneurs. People keep options open even when it is not in their best interest, according to former MIT professor Dan Ariely, who discusses the topic in his 2008 book, Predictably Irrational. According to his research, when people are given what appear to be multiple paths to success, they will try to retain all the paths as options, even though selecting one specific path would have guaranteed them the most success.”
Live well,
Hector