People will settle their whole lives and then make you feel crazy for not following suit. They’ll settle into jobs and people and relationships and homes and places. Settle and settle and settle and wonder why they’re not “happy” while trying to convince you to do the same. The life you were born for is not the life you settle for. The life you were born for requires thought, effort, execution, and discernment. You’ve got to know when to say yes and when to say no. Does this align with who I want to be? Does this person make me better? Is the money more important than my morals? Can you justify it? The only person you have to be okay with looking at in the mirror at the end of the day is you. Do you like what you see?
The job the love the relationship the life… it’s all waiting for you on the other side of your fear of discomfort. A few years of discomfort is better than a lifetime of wondering “what if?”or “if only.”
Get comfortable being uncomfortable. The only way to get there is to go there. You’ve got to push. At the end of this thing, don’t look back on the life you could have had vs the life you settled for.
You’ve got to fight for it.
It is the only fight.
Obsess. For f*ck sakes. You only get one life. Don’t screw it up by being normal. Go all in. Act like a psycho. Let people call you insane. Please. I beg you. Obsession is the path.
Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.
However, when we discover that our life has value, that we are loved, awaited, and called to carry out a task in the world, then hope is born. This spiritual force sustains life, even in the most difficult moments.
Main reason people don’t reach their potential is they’re holding onto rules imposed upon them during adolescence by unqualified authority figures.
Still trying to conform to being a morning person at age 27, meanwhile you produce your best work at 3 AM.
Still copying someone else’s form in athletics when you’ve got an entirely different bone structure.
Gotta write your own curriculum as quickly as possible and smash every inherited idea to dust if you’re planning to create anything great.