XXPrinciple 20 of 21

Build for a horizon beyond your life

Choose at least one undertaking whose completion you will not see: a forest, an institution, a body of work, a child’s formation, a repaired relationship between groups.

STHAIRYA · STEADINESS, PERMANENCE

Choose at least one undertaking whose completion you will not see: a forest, an institution, a body of work, a child’s formation, a repaired relationship between groups. This is the practice that most reliably reorganises a life, because it cannot be done for the reward.

The practice

Plant something that will outlive you, in a place where it will be allowed to.

A question to carry

What am I building that will still matter in fifty years?

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