Working hard
The world tells you that you can be anything, so you forget how to be yourself.
It shows you everything you can become, so you abandon what you already are.
It offers you a million lives; you choose none, and lose the one that was already yours.
It shows you everything you can become, so you abandon what you already are.
It offers you a million lives; you choose none, and lose the one that was already yours.
People do well if they CAN do well. If they can they will. If they could they would.
This is in contrast to the notion that people do well when they WANT to.
It’s a skill problem rather than a will problem
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with... See more