"As others have said, don't look for goals look for a lifestyle." is really bad advice. A lifestyle merely describes and/or quantifies the way one lives. I'm

"As others have said, don't look for goals look for a lifestyle." is really bad advice. A lifestyle merely describes and/or quantifies the way one lives. I'm not sure how you get to this conclusion based on the post or the comments, and I am not sure what value it provides. I think this is the precise mode of conformity Thompson is railing against. Currently, conformity is the common path, "the floating," Thompson describes. It seems to me the outliers with a purpose and the will to swim to their goals find fulfillment along the way.