Timothy always told everyone to “Question authority and think for yourself.” I remember after an event where he and I spoke, a bunch of kids came up to Tim and said, “so what should we do?!?!” and Tim shouted at them, “Think for yourself!!” What I realized as I spent time with Tim was that people wanted gurus and that the more you tried to explain that you weren’t a guru, the more many people became convinced that you were in fact a guru and that they wanted in on the secret. People wanted “answers” and wanted to get to some kind of goal. The thing is, there is no answer and there is no goal. You don’t ‘win.’

Joichi Ito at LinkedIn. Gurus, goals and mindfulness (via protoslacker)