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How to Do What You Love
Finding what you love to do
When you're deciding what to do, you have to operate on incomplete information.
- Unless you are fairly sure what to do, choose a type of work that could turn into either an organic or two-job career.
- Early on, seek jobs that let you do many different things, so you can learn faster what various kinds of work are like.
- Regardless of what route you take, expect a struggle. Finding work you love is very difficult. But if you have a destination in view, you'll be more likely to reach it.
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Being Insanely Successful By Going Against The Norm
- Success means different things to different people and is not always about bigger cars or the number of followers.
- To achieve something extraordinary, you have to do something that no other people (or maybe just a few) are doing or willing to do.
- Therefore, step-by-step systems on "how to be successful" are not going to help you achieve spectacular success.
Being Aware of The Narrative Fallacy
The Narrative Fallacy makes us to see events as stories, with logical chains of cause and effect. When it comes to success, do not fall for the ‘narrative’ fallacy’ and think that great people became successful due to what happened to them, and if we emulate that, we will achieve the same result.
We need to do something extraordinary and exceptional to achieve great success, and that makes any successful person an exception, someone who did what few others were willing to do. Instead of googling for success, find what you want to do to change the world!
Success Is Something We Make Up
- Very few of us went through childhood without getting any emotional scars.
- Be it home or school, we suffered many problems when our impressionable mind wasn’t mature enough to handle them the way we can as an adult.
- Our worldview becomes skewed, and we start to build upon the mutated version of the world around us, messing up with our lives.
- Success by itself is not about money or fame or power, but our upbringing programs us to think about success in a certain way.
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Happiness
Happiness, like other emotions, is not something you acquire. It is something you are.
This implies that happiness is not a goal that you can reach. It is a side effect of a particular set of ongoing life experiences.
Happiness is not the same as pleasure
While pleasure is correlated with happiness, pursuing pleasure does not cause happiness.
People who focus their energy on materialistic and superficial pleasures end up more anxious and less happy in the long run. Pleasure is necessary, but it's insufficient.
Lowering one’s expectations
Failing to meet your own expectations is not the opposite of happiness. Your ability to fail and still appreciate the experience is key to happiness.
The joy is not in getting what you want, but the process of working towards it, then raising the bar, and doing it again. If you fail, learn from it.
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Jim Rohn
Work On Yourself
Your work is a reflection of you. If you want something different: improve yourself.
If you're not getting the results you're looking for, stop looking for better strategies. Instead, look inside. Try to continuously improve yourself, by expanding your vision, skills, and abilities.
Put Yourself In Difficult Situations
You need to put yourself into positions that create immense pressure. The kind of pressure that will either make or break you.
This is how you purge out your weakness and small-mindedness. It won't be pretty. But it will change you.