Everything you want is on the other side of taking a shot, asking again, and not giving a fuck about what other people think until you get what you want.
You just have to fucking try.
Ben Affleck says you have to abandon everyone around you in order to achieve greatness
"when you see Michael Jordan like what does it mean to be great? and how's like touch everybody? and change everybody"
"to truly be great at something you have to almost abandon everything...I've seen that in various ways like in that kind of just personal study. I haven't seen anybody who I think like qualifies for that who who didn't also seem to be really suffering"
"I find that really fascinating like people who are great at something and the mystery of like what is that like? and what is that do to your life? and how did you get that way?"
Tolerating always turns to resentment. At first, you call it patience, then love. But what it really is, is self-abandonment. Every time you swallow a boundary, excuse a pattern or silence your discomfort, something inside you keeps score. Likes And eventually, the bill comes due.
This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”