Building the kind of life i want

Action:

Find people whose presence recalibrates your ambition. People who live in the dimension you’re aiming for, not because they’re better, but because they remind you what’s possible.

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

This is what trips many people up because they are only used to doing one specialized task within a business as an employee.

He told me to pay attention to what I enjoyed most about my lifestyle, and try to preserve it while I experimented.

don’t confuse the decision with the result. A good process can produce bad outcomes, and a bad process can get lucky. Judge the process.

I keep punting this, am I reinforcing a permanent employee-only mindset? Am I locking myself into a single-channel system where all my leverage depends on others' approval?

You launch the side project—even if in micro-form. The real win isn’t the project itself, but the shift into a system of self-authorship and compound leverage.

The room holds us, but sometimes, that’s not why we stay. We actually stay because we don’t yet know how to live without its framing.