commitment
fomo makes us lose control over our own lives because we’re too busy grasping for moments that were never ours to begin with. we want to be so many things at once, to stand in every room, to live every version of ourselves at the same time. but we can’t—and maybe we’re not meant to.
It's easy to end up average: you are interested in everything, get distracted by everything, never commit to anything, and the years pass, and you do a lot of things, but never stick to anything long enough to get rewarded.
Orange Book 🍊📖x.comIt was a classic “straddled strategy” of attempting to invest in everything at once. The result was that while I was not entirely failing in any pursuit I was not entirely succeeding at any either. I soon began to wonder just what was so great about all these open options.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
