The dangers of following what society and influencers impose

We’re often given a single plot about what makes life worth living. Just follow this one path, the story goes, and you’ll get your happy ending. But the paths and the plots are multiple. In attempting to duplicate someone else’s seemingly happy ending, we end up deleting the possible plots of our own life. We become a silent extra in the background of someone else’s movie.

In the end, the journey to self-improvement isn’t about copying someone else’s highlight reel.

It’s about finding what genuinely works for us, imperfections and all—and maybe laughing at the absurdity of milking a goat at dawn.

Strategizing can also be seen as multi-monthly-yearly cycles of divergence-convergence. During divergence one is asked to ben absolutely open to the world, during convergence nothing can distract someone from their short-term concrete goal(s).

What’s next collection from MIT Tech Review