Oct 21, 2016

check your own pulse

Would you rather experience good things or interesting things?

Being capital-A Alive isn’t always about the good life. In fact, it usually isn’t.

Because, riffing on Dostoevsky, good lives are all alike — but interesting lives have their own narrative.

Push away from the good life for a minute and make your pulse race. Do something that makes you nervous. Break your habits.

Prove your pulse to yourself.

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