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Every time I sit down to write a newsletter, I experience a familiar hesitation. A voice in my head starts doing quality control and asks:

Will this be useful enough?
Will it be relevant?
Will people be interested?
Should I really be writing about this?

My inner voice is very concerned about being on point. It wants to anticipate what you need, predict how you’ll receive what I send, and also avoid anything that feels too personal, too niche, or too strange.

And in the process of writing these newsletters, I’ve learned that listening to that voice is almost always a mistake.

The only question that actually matters is much simpler: What genuinely interests me right now?

Because when I ignore this question, the writing becomes dutiful, careful, and lifeless. And when I follow it, something else happens. The writing becomes clearer and hopefully more useful—not in spite of being personal, but because it is just that.

Being interested turns out to apply far beyond writing.

When we feel stuck in our work, bored by our career, or paralyzed by a life decision, it is often because we might have slowly stopped organizing our days around what interests us. We are busy, competent, and productive. But we are no longer curious.

And curiosity matters more than we are taught to believe.

“Interest” sounds small compared to words like passion, purpose, or excitement. Sometimes it even sounds dismissive. “Interesting” is what you say when you don’t want to criticize something or someone directly.

But the Jungian therapist, James Hollis argues that an interesting life, interesting to you, may be the highest aspiration available to us.

An interesting one.

An interesting life doesn’t promise constant happiness or success. It promises engagement. It asks you to stay awake during your own experience and notice what pulls at you, puzzles you, irritates you, or what you can’t stop obsessing over.

That framing matters because it quietly changes the purpose of life. It stops being a problem to fix and becomes a participatory experience. The goal isn’t to win at life, but to stay alive during every moment.

Ironically, this is often what leads to success anyway. People respond to aliveness. They sense when someone is working with their own grain rather than against it. The opposite is also true. Constantly shape-shifting to meet expectations—whether they are other people’s or your own imagined ones—produces a very specific exhaustion. You are not overworked. You are misaligned.

Trusting your interest does not require dramatic changes. It requires attention.

Here are a few practical ways to start doing it.

There is something quietly resilient about interest.

Life is not always joyful. Work is not always fun. Today, the world is certainly not calm or reassuring. But it’s almost always possible to find something genuinely absorbing, something that pulls you forward rather than drains you.

This is also why interest feels so fragile in an age of AI and automation. You can sense when something was made without care, without attention, without curiosity. It may be impressive. It may be efficient. But it does not hold you or stay with you. Interest requires presence, and presence cannot be faked.

We do live in interesting times. That is not a curse. It’s our reality. And within it, there are paths you could take today that would make your own life more interesting to you.

This might be the most reliable compass you have.

You owe it to yourself to see where it leads.

Why the secret to finding your interests starts with admitting what you hate

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