The Simple Act of Doing
When you get up in the morning, you form a vague idea of how the rest of your day is going to be. You might dread an early rise for a job you're not passionate about or you might despise your classes for the same reasons. Something is missing because you don't feel like you are controlling your destiny. Instead you are going through the motions like a sheep. You have this idea that one day things are going to get better, whether it's by getting lucky or finding the secret to success from your voracious amounts of research. I've been through all of that and I have to be honest with you here: all of that is straight up bullshit.
If you want a life that makes you feel proud to be alive, the simple answer is to do it. Do the things that will grant you happiness in life. The challenge is that most of you are either afraid of going against the crowd, feel like you can't do it, or don't know how to even start. You're never going to know if you will be successful if you don't even try it. A big misconception that goes along with this stagnation is that success will happen with the creation of a single, grand masterpiece. Bill Gates didn't create Microsoft all at once, he had successes and failures with hundreds of programs for years before coming up with the operating system. The same goes for any musicians, salespeople, entrepreneurs, YouTubers, artists, physicists, etc. Any person that is trying to create a name for themselves right now is following this process. They can't help but keep trying to create new ways of solving people's problems. And so, in order for you to do anything, you have to love the process of doing.
No one can motivate you to do this but yourself. I like to quote the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and overall badassery, Elon Musk, "If you need words of inspiration to do anything, don't do it." This will most likely lead you to failure. Why? Because you're not telling yourself that you can do it. You're not believing in yourself that the world needs what you are providing and that is what will make you fail.
There are so many pressures from society and from our own homes that determines our level of success. It takes real guts to not give a shit about what everybody else thinks and just run with the idea that we think is going to change the world. No one knows what is going to happen, so why should you believe that they're right about your ideas not succeeding? The world is dictated by probability. Why not try to see if the probability will be in your favor? Do it.
If you want a life that makes you feel proud to be alive, the simple answer is to do it. Do the things that will grant you happiness in life. The challenge is that most of you are either afraid of going against the crowd, feel like you can't do it, or don't know how to even start. You're never going to know if you will be successful if you don't even try it. A big misconception that goes along with this stagnation is that success will happen with the creation of a single, grand masterpiece. Bill Gates didn't create Microsoft all at once, he had successes and failures with hundreds of programs for years before coming up with the operating system. The same goes for any musicians, salespeople, entrepreneurs, YouTubers, artists, physicists, etc. Any person that is trying to create a name for themselves right now is following this process. They can't help but keep trying to create new ways of solving people's problems. And so, in order for you to do anything, you have to love the process of doing.
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There are so many pressures from society and from our own homes that determines our level of success. It takes real guts to not give a shit about what everybody else thinks and just run with the idea that we think is going to change the world. No one knows what is going to happen, so why should you believe that they're right about your ideas not succeeding? The world is dictated by probability. Why not try to see if the probability will be in your favor? Do it.
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