ruskin on the highest reward for a [wo]man’s toil

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. (John Ruskin)
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love this. quite a bit of a paradigm shift. rather than think of success in terms of how our work is perceived by the world (how much recognition we get for it or what material rewards it produces), we should perhaps focus on who we have become (or r becoming) by virtue of what we do. that’s a much better gauge of “success.”