This file unpacks the quiet danger of chasing goals that don’t belong to you—and the one sentence that can snap you out of it.

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This file doesn’t start with a revelation.

Just a walk I took to avoid thinking—that accidentally worked.

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You know the task. The one you keep retyping.

This file catches that moment—right before your brain finds another clever way to avoid it.

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You already know what it is.

This file just tells you to do it first.

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Clarity isn't added.

It's removed.

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Most of the weight was never the work.

It was the waiting.

The story you tell yourself is charming—and full of sh*t.
Burn it. See what’s left.

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This file gives you the limits that protect what matters most.

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This file isn’t about courage.

It’s about what happens when you name the thing.

You didn't confuse the AI.

You just forgot to finish your thought.

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Still Pages


A 100-day short reading challenge


Your brain wasn’t built for TikTok and 40 tabs.

It was built to finish a paragraph. Maybe even two.


100 days. 100 pages. All free.

Poems, stories, essays
—handpicked to sharpen focus and stretch your mind.


The challenge: 

One page a day. You vs. your dopamine—go.


  • The Gift of the Magi

    Short Story by O. Henry | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Road Not Taken

    Poem by Robert Frost | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • The Lottery

    Short Story by Shirley Jackson | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Story of an Hour

    Short Story by Kate Chopin | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • If—

    Poem by Rudyard Kipling | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • Advice to Youth

    Essay by Mark Twain | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Necklace

    Short Story by Guy de Maupassant | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Harrison Bergeron

    Short Story by Kurt Vonnegut | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Invictus

    Poem by William Ernest Henley | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • How It Feels to Be Colored Me

    Essay by Zora Neale Hurston | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ ESSAY
  • I Want a Wife

    Essay by Judy Brady | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Harlem

    Poem by Langston Hughes | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • Of Studies

    Essay by Francis Bacon | Estimated Reading Time: ~3 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Short Story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Estimated Reading Time: ~30 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Tell-Tale Heart

    Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Ozymandias

    Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • Shooting an Elephant

    Essay by George Orwell | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ ESSAY
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    Short Story by Ambrose Bierce | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • We Real Cool

    Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • A Modest Proposal

    Essay by Jonathan Swift | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Lady with the Dog

    Short Story by Anton Chekhov | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Because I could not stop for Death

    Poem by Emily Dickinson | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    Essay by Martin Luther King Jr. | Estimated Reading Time: ~35 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Monkey’s Paw

    Short Story by W. W. Jacobs | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Still I Rise

    Poem by Maya Angelou | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • Is Google Making Us Stupid?

    Essay by Nicholas Carr | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Overcoat

    Short Story by Nikolai Gogol | Estimated Reading Time: ~30 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

    Poem by Dylan Thomas | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • Self-Reliance

    Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Estimated Reading Time: ~30 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    Poem by T. S. Eliot | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ POEM
  • The Red Wheelbarrow

    Poem by William Carlos Williams | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • Young Goodman Brown

    Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Allegory of the Cave

    Essay by Plato | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ ESSAY
  • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

    Poem by William Wordsworth | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • Rip Van Winkle

    Short Story by Washington Irving | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Daddy

    Poem by Sylvia Plath | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ POEM
  • The Death of the Moth

    Essay by Virginia Woolf | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Kubla Khan

    Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ POEM
  • In a Grove

    Short Story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Diary of a Madman

    Short Story by Lu Xun | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Walking

    Essay by Henry David Thoreau | Estimated Reading Time: ~30 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Raven

    Poem by Edgar Allan Poe | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ POEM
  • Of Our Spiritual Strivings

    Essay by W. E. B. Du Bois | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Where the Mind is Without Fear

    Poem by Rabindranath Tagore | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • The Garden Party

    Short Story by Katherine Mansfield | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The New Colossus

    Poem by Emma Lazarus | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • Drinking Alone by Moonlight

    Poem by Li Bai | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)

    Poem by Pablo Neruda | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • The Guest House

    Poem by Jalaluddin Rumi | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • On the Pleasure of Hating

    Essay by William Hazlitt | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ ESSAY
  • What I Believe

    Essay by E. M. Forster | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Notes on Camp

    Essay by Susan Sontag | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Most Dangerous Game

    Short Story by Richard Connell | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Company of Wolves

    Short Story by Angela Carter | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • No Name Woman

    Essay by Maxine Hong Kingston | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Total Eclipse

    Essay by Annie Dillard | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Once Upon a Time

    Short Story by Nadine Gordimer | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Emergency

    Short Story by Denis Johnson | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

    Short Story by Joyce Carol Oates | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Looking for a Rain God

    Short Story by Bessie Head | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

    Short Story by Gabriel García Márquez | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Goodbye to All That

    Essay by Joan Didion | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Sonny’s Blues

    Short Story by James Baldwin | Estimated Reading Time: ~40 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Notes of a Native Son

    Essay by James Baldwin | Estimated Reading Time: ~30 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Self-Reliance

    Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Estimated Reading Time: ~30 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Of Cannibals

    Essay by Michel de Montaigne | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Library of Babel

    Short Story by Jorge Luis Borges | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Cathedral

    Short Story by Raymond Carver | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • A Perfect Day for Bananafish

    Short Story by J. D. Salinger | Estimated Reading Time: ~20 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Mother Tongue

    Essay by Amy Tan | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

    Short Story by Ursula K. Le Guin | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    Short Story by James Thurber | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Man in the Arena

    Essay by Theodore Roosevelt | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ ESSAY
  • Musee des Beaux Arts

    Poem by W. H. Auden | Estimated Reading Time: ~3 min
    READ POEM
  • Speech at the Atlanta Exposition

    Essay by Booker T. Washington | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ ESSAY
  • To My Mother

    Poem by Edgar Allan Poe | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • To Room Nineteen

    Short Story by Doris Lessing | Estimated Reading Time: ~40 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Fish

    Poem by Elizabeth Bishop | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ POEM
  • Sestina

    Poem by Elizabeth Bishop | Estimated Reading Time: ~6 min
    READ POEM
  • Howl

    Poem by Allen Ginsberg | Estimated Reading Time: ~30 min
    READ POEM
  • Girl

    Short Story by Jamaica Kincaid | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Use of Force

    Short Story by William Carlos Williams | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Fly

    Short Story by Katherine Mansfield | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • A Hanging

    Essay by George Orwell | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ ESSAY
  • A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

    Short Story by Ernest Hemingway | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Traveling Through the Dark

    Poem by William Stafford | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • Those Winter Sundays

    Poem by Robert Hayden | Estimated Reading Time: ~2 min
    READ POEM
  • How It Feels

    Essay by Jenny Zhang | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Colonel

    Poem by Carolyn Forché | Estimated Reading Time: ~3 min
    READ POEM
  • The School

    Short Story by Donald Barthelme | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Long Rain

    Short Story by Ray Bradbury | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Incident

    Poem by Countee Cullen | Estimated Reading Time: ~1 min
    READ POEM
  • The Book of My Lives (excerpt)

    Essay by Aleksandar Hemon | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Open Boat

    Short Story by Stephen Crane | Estimated Reading Time: ~30 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • A Piece of Yellow Soap

    Short Story by Frank Sargeson | Estimated Reading Time: ~5 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • A Cup of Tea

    Short Story by Katherine Mansfield | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • The Cask of Amontillado

    Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe | Estimated Reading Time: ~15 min
    READ SHORT STORY
  • Phenomenal Woman

    Poem by Maya Angelou | Estimated Reading Time: ~3 min
    READ POEM
  • The Myth of Sisyphus (excerpt)

    Essay by Albert Camus | Estimated Reading Time: ~10 min
    READ ESSAY
  • The Ones Who Are Obsessed With Perfection

    Poem by Ocean Vuong | Estimated Reading Time: ~3 min
    READ POEM

Fusion

The compass—shaping your focus. Build systems that direct your energy toward what matters.


Navigate life with intentional strategies that clarify your true north.



Action

The energy—fueling your drive. Align your actions with your strengths to sustain momentum.



Your personal growth and relationships become the renewable power source that transforms potential into purpose.

Vision

The destination—create value that compounds. As your time and self align, wealth follows effortlessly.



The natural consequence of purposeful navigation and authentic energy.