Jan Jachimowicz

That was what he had defined for himself as being his dream.

And so when it didn't work out for him, he fell into a deep dark hole because he said, this is the goal that I had.

This is the path that it would require for me to reach this goal.

That path is no longer available for me and therefore I cannot reach this goal.

when his neurologist said, wait, but you can still make art.

Like, why don't you just do it, but in a different way?

What Phil started experimenting with was to realize maybe there are other things that I could do, and maybe it'll take me to a different goal.

but perhaps that goal is still meaningful to me.

Perhaps that is still something that I could be passionate about.

So I think the initial step here that he talks about is that he had to let go of the conceptions that he had about himself.

The second step was to then embrace, okay,

What else could I do?

What other things can I pursue even with an uncertain outcome?

I don't know what I'm ultimately working towards.

And the way that I think about this is to be open to experimenting and in this way developing what it is that you're passionate about.

It sounds to me like what Phil is doing is finding out why he cares about art so much.

What it is that through art he wants to accomplish.

But I think more broadly, it highlights this distinction between the outcome that I think we become very fixated on.

I want to become X person.

I want to do Y thing versus the process.