Dreams Start With Patience #16

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What to expect:

1. Unmasking Emotional Immaturity:

2. Life: The Ultimate One-Chance Game:

3. Strategies for A Meaningful Life:

Did you ever actually grow up?

What happens when all the people in the world you meet have child-like emotional outbursts?

Thinking about this fictional world gives me the creeps - but wait..

Many people never choose to grow up - emotionally, mentally and physically stunted at an early age.

These attributes trickle over to many different aspects of their lives.

This is reality - nobody knows what they’re doing.

People are still kids inside but with a strong refusal to grow up.

The hardest part about life is also the greatest part about life.

We are mortal. One chance at life.

This is not a video-game, once we die we do not respawn.

Your friends and family not respawning is a horrendous thought.

Yet - we don’t move like that is the case.

We don’t take immediate action for a better life.

We are persuaded into doing less.

Society will break you, one way or another.

The way of the world and the truth is always sad.

“At least I have my drugs and alcohol!”

Self-medication is a slippery slope - many continue to choose cynicism because it’s sexy.

It’s always something about the end of the world that helps people feel good.

I know for myself - I never got around to making my life better until I was in the beginning of my 20’s

A concept for everyone to acknowledge - not everyone wants to improve their life and go further.

The potential self has died - they are aware of this.

Where do we exist when our future is gone?

How awful it is to no longer have a dream.

This is the reality for a lot of individuals.

It’s painful.

I look at them and decided to do the opposite of what they are doing.

Choose the hard - life will balance.

Inspiration and motivation are both fleeting

The same is said about happiness and sadness.

The choice of easy versus difficulty is usually a simple decision.

If you are only living to get by you:

Choose the easy decision. Nothing you’ve done in your life has any real meaning.

You are living on auto-pilot

If you choose to live to better the world around you and build:

Chances are you pick challenge over ease

You have something to prove, take note of this mindset - as this will lead you ahead of the pack

You should know two critical differences:

1. The path of least resistance is essential for a well-balanced life.

Tasks in excess are destroying your time for thinking.

Taking on too many responsibilities benefits no one.

2. “Least resistance” does not mean easy

Do not, and I mean this.

DO NOT - consider easy things good for you.

Gen X are told - “Work hard and life will reward you”
Millennials are told - “Work smarter not harder”
Gen Z is being told - “Shut up, do the work. Your generation doesn’t want to work.”

Funny thing - life does reward effort + strategy/skill.

Those in Gen Z determined enough to understand these two differences have an incredible shot at a fulfilling life.

People are waking up every-day to the notion that they’re meant for more.

I highly-believe every individual will accomplish more in the digital-renaissance than in years past.

The 2020’s will be one to remember.

A pivotal moment in our history.

The Hidden Dread of Our Rapidly-Advancing world.

Even though, we have more ample resources and research more than ever.

Instant access to all types of information at our fingertips.

Individuals are more skeptical and full of negative emotions than ever.

Why is that?

-A sense of loneliness and pessimism is brought on by the growing polarization and division in society.

-The modern education system instills fear through uncertainty.
But - continuously tells it’s students to take the conventional and “safe” option.

-Lack of structured self-learning; developing self-awareness almost always stems from the first hand experience life has to offer.
More mistakes = more opportunities to grow.

With new distractions created every day:

Relationships become pushed to the side for the almighty screen time.

We must protect one thing more than anything else.

Our inner peace

Without protecting our mind from distractions and existential dread.

We are subject to various sources of abuse.

An addiction to cheap dopamine is the fastest growing addiction since cocaine.

My antidote:

-Remove social media from your phone
-Start dieting for your brain rather than for your waist (food can be addictive)
-Go into nature
-Create art (bonus points if you have a medium you love already)
-Create a weekly routine outside of technology
-Organize and Develop systems for your life rather than mindless scrolling
(I am developing a course and notion template to optimize for the relief of existential dread in our modern world)

Life becomes 10x easier when we decide to take charge - high agency individuals almost always have incredible stories.

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