“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going.

—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth. Highlighted Apr 20, 2025

# growth # goals # self-concept # grief

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth. Highlighted Apr 6, 2025

# perfectionism # learning # growth

“If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you’ll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won’t have the time. For there’s always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.”

—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth. Highlighted Apr 6, 2025

# goals # self-experiments