A performing life requires constant purposeful movement toward goals

Evidence

Always be moving toward a goal. Always be actually doing something. Never be aimless. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 359

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines a core principle of the performance-as-life practice, usable in teaching and meditation contexts.
• SEED: Could be spun into a short essay on aimlessness vs. directed attention in listening practice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 359
• XREF: connects to: Merging striving with nonattachment could inspire new approaches to personal goal-setting. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1085; Self-observation of mental state is a core performance discipline — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 361; Neurotic symptoms become legible only when interpreted as aiming at a final goal — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 751 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Merging striving with nonattachment could inspire new approaches to personal goal-setting. #complicates (0.75) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1085
• Self-observation of mental state is a core performance discipline #expands (0.65) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 361