"We are all living in cages with the door wide open."
- George Lucas
This is one of the truest comments about your life.
No matter who you are or how it feels - the cage isn't closed....
The door is open, you just have to act like it -
Escape the illusion.
The real cheat code:
True Discipline always begins with your thoughts....
If you can't control what you think,
You can't control what you do.
All discipline starts in your head.
To be comfortable as an attending physician one must have spent a lot of time being uncomfortable as a trainee.
Making training comfortable means a lot of discomfort when on your own.
Who you are, is a direct reflection of who you want to be, who you feel you deserve to be, and what space you feel able to take up in the world.
I hope you blow it out.
Allow yourself to be all the things you’ve ever wanted.
Be a reasonable person doing "unreasonable" things:
- High appetite for the unknown
- Strong risk tolerance
- A level head
You'll be called the "unreasonable" person, but in time the results show...
What is "Reasonable" depends on the person taking it on.
People who "don't care about anything," look relaxed, but are inherently weak people.
It takes boldness to care deeply about things...to defend them, and to run into the fire on them.
Nothing great was ever pushed forward by people who sat on their tail & cared about nothing.
The most successful people don't add new things to their lives...
They ruthlessly eliminate what doesn't matter.
A lot of things you take on - you shouldn't.
There is no complaining for the ambitious or self-propelled - only seeing, solving, working through, and figuring out.
It's a mindset most people will never understand.
The tendency to want to "do the easy thing," sabotages a lot of people.
It pulls so many talented, capable people off course & away from what they could have been.
Hard things is how you reach your potential,
There is no other way.