My Journey

If I have learned one thing on how to get better, it's that I really do have to keep doing them again and again, more and more, until I get better and better at them. How nice is it for the privileged Goku's of the world with their hyperbolic time chambers and their mentors who give them training, feedback, and a safe environment for them to grow? Perhaps a terrible analogy as it relates to me.  Fall in love with the process. Just keep taking steps. Learn to peak your dopamine release during the process of friction. Enjoy the process and forget about the goals. Lose yourself in the flow of your actions and your work. Chase excellence and success shall follow. Lay down that brick as perfectly as possible and forget about the walls and the pathways and everything else. Just have that fundamental quality of faith that on the other side of your pain, there is something better. If I keep saying the words and doing the actions, will they eventually start to become real? Days like thi...

I t's safe to say that the people fortunate enough to have their most basic needs fulfilled and secured throughout their lives are faced with increasingly counter intuitive challenges that continuously manage to turn up the difficulty. Think of it as the game of life's ingenious built-in system to ensure a consistent level of challenge and infinite replay-ability.  None the less, with the advent of the internet, guides and walkthroughs for virtually all levels can be uploaded secure in the knowledge that almost everyone from any level can possibly seek out their own personal solutions. So any advice offered is never really wasted, provided it's made easily available. Even if it isn't, no effort is ever wasted in general, but that's another topic in itself. With that outlandish introduction out of the way, I want to talk about the single biggest misconception so prevalent that it manages to hold people back in innumerable ways regardless of their level. It is the ide...