Don’t pressure yourself. This is similar to the “burnout” issue from the chapter “How to Choose Yourself.” Sometimes you plant seeds but not every seed takes and grows into a beautiful plant. In fact, very few do. If you pressure yourself to turn every seed into the most amazingly beautiful plant the world has ever seen, then you are going to set y

The only thing you’re actually letting go of is the idea that all you’d ever deserve are the things that do not reach back.

If you want something very badly, don’t try too hard to seek it out, don’t pursue it—better still, don’t want it badly. You can generally get success if you don’t want victory. And it is not in mortals to command success.