if you’re not guided by a clear sense of…
if you’re not guided by a clear sense of purpose, you’re likely put away your time and energy on obtaining the most tangible, short term signs of achievement, not what’s really important to you.
— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)
In the book
Nietzsche pictured the human being as a rope stretched over an abyss, a creature always in transition, never finished, always on the way to something higher. And without a clear sense of where you are headed, you will scatter your one tank of energy across a hundred small fires and call the smoke a life. If purpose is the destination, wisdom is how you read the route to it — and wisdom is not the same thing as knowledge. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)