ov //my thoughts
A capitalist society benefits from you feeling insecure, from you being lonely. The more lonely and insecure you feel, the more you believe the idea that you need those new skincare products, that big house, that flashy car. Maybe, if you look like that movie star, people will flock to you and provide that feeling of being wanted that we all crave.
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Are you creating to build what looks like success to others or are you creating to build value?
Don't take yourself so seriously. Embrace chaos. Seek it, even. Build a fort in your living room, act like you're a crazy pirate on an adventure. Break convention. Break out of the circle of sameness that we're all herded into, daily.
People want you to succeed. They WANT to have known the founder of google before it was google.
If you’re comfortable, you’re losing (money, opportunity)
We’re obsessed with success and it’s killing us. We’ve fallen in love with a result, and when we fail to achieve it we beat ourselves up wondering what’s wrong with us. We seek out structured paths to achieve it. We become obsessed with those that have. Yet if you ask successful people, they’ll likely tell you they didn’t set out to get rich - they
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A super power is being present - not having to worry about what’s next. Having a secretary or assistant to guide you through your day, someone else who’s job is to worry about what’s next for you, enables you to be present
Are you rooting your decisions in your core principles or in a mix of second hand opinions you see on media feeds? Do you have core principles?