You Get One Life. Don’t Screw It up by Being Normal.
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You Get One Life. Don’t Screw It up by Being Normal.
The life we call “normal” isn’t normal at all. A spouse and kids, a mortgage, a 9-to-5 job... who said that was life? What’s so great about working in a factory or a cubicle? You and I, who are artists and entrepreneurs, live a life that’s closer to natural, if you ask me. We migrate, too. We follow the muse instead of the sun.... See more
All addictions share,
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro – by Steven Pressfield
the writer Charles Bukowski said: ‘Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.’
Robin Sharma • The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
Question on rejecting the status quo:
Is it time you start living outside the box?
There's a passage from Nassim Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes that hit me hard:
"They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the
... See moreSometimes, this world is tough because we shame and diminish ordinary … We chase extraordinary moments instead of being grateful for ordinary moments until hard shit happens. Then, in the face of the really hard stuff—illness, death, loss—the only thing we’re begging for is a normal moment.