If winning was guaranteed &certain, you'd go 10x harder at it.
Paradoxically, if you went 10x harder, the win would almost be a guarantee, on a long enough time horizon, for any goal.
It's easy to mentally recognize this, but it ideally should be felt in the body as a fact.
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
delusional optimism is the only way out. most people lose before they even start because deep down they already convinced themselves it probably wonβt work. they look at the odds and the competition and they try to be more practical and slowly talk themselves out of their own potential. but the people who end up doing insane things usually have one thing in common. they were delusional enough to believe they could actually pull it off before there was any proof. thatβs the weird power of delusional optimism. it makes you keep going long enough for reality to eventually catch up to your vision.
i just canβt understand why you all are this realistic with your dreams. why you only allow yourself to want things that feel achievable from where you currently stand. every massive success story ever sounded delusional in the beginning. every athlete, artist, entrepreneur, creator, all of them had moments where nobody around them understood the vision. people laughed at them. doubted them. told them to be practical. but they kept going anyway because they were obsessed enough to trust something nobody else could see yet.
i mean just think about it. you are alive and here in this world. the odds were already impossibly slim. you exist on a planet floating in infinite darkness where trees communicate underground, where dead stars became the atoms in your body, where creatures glow in the ocean without sunlight ever touching them. your own brain is made of electricity and somehow produces dreams, memories, ideas, emotions. everything about existence sounds insane if you really think about it deeply enough. so why do people suddenly become βrealisticβ or βpracticalβthe moment it comes to their own potential? there is nothing realistic about being alive in the first place. so be delusional, thatβs the only way out.
Just do more.
You will adapt. Your body will adapt. Your mind will adapt.
You can just simply do more and figure it out along the way. Most things in life simply bend to the virtue of volume. Everything is learnable, you are adaptable and the universe is endlessly malleable.
If you're stressed, have lost direction in life, or feel like everything is falling apart, just do some kind of physical activity. Gym, football, badminton, running, literally anything. Just do it.
People tie everything to some damn milestone. "I'll start going to the gym after I get a job." "I'll start after this project." "I'll start once life settles down."
Man, life never settles down. People have become so good at procrastinating that they can find an excuse for literally anything. Then they wonder why nothing is working.
Just give your body some time. Trust me, it'll thank you for it.