But who are you running against? For most of your life, the person on the other treadmill is yourself.
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You’re Not Bored — You’re Boring
James Altucher posted this on his Instagram 2 days ago:
Reposting it made me really uncomfortable – because I think it’s exactly true for a lot of people I know.
The only times in my life when I was bored were the times when I rested on my laurels.
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Learning how to pay for your own shit. You’ve spent enough time sponging off your parents. It’s time to start living in the real world.
One of my biggest “I wish’s” is “I wish my parents had forced me to take a job when I was younger.” I never had to work for anything growing up. If I wanted an Xbox, I could just wish for money for Christmas or my birthday and boom, there it was.
It’s not that I was horrible with money – I knew it was limited in supply. But I had no idea just how limited.
One time I remember trying to get a paper route. It would have meant delivering papers for 8 hours a day, twice a week – for 200 bucks a month. That’s a little over $3/hour for hard, manual labor.
In the end, my parents told me not to take it. I wish I had. Because after that, I would’ve learned an incredible valuable lesson: It’s fucking hard to make 200 bucks. And I never want to do it this way again.
Read MoreWhy You Don’t Have the Life You Want
Comfort.
In a world of Amazon, McDonalds, Netflix, Spotify, AirBnB, Uber and Tinder, nobody wants to do things the hard way.
Nobody’s willing to give up comfort now for greatness later. Everything in life has to be cheap, fast and easy.
Cheap, fast, easy.
Nothing worth having comes easy.
Nothing worth having comes fast.
Nothing worth having comes cheap.
Read MoreHow To Make Sure You Never Find Your Passion In Life
Has anyone ever asked you for directions and you were too embarrassed to admit you don’t know? So much in fact, that you tried to tell them where to go regardless? Just to save your face?
“Uhhh, I think it’s that way.”
That’s what most career advice feels like these days. Nobody has a clue, so everyone goes with their best guess — which is everybody else’s best guess also.
Hence, we live in a world of depressed millennials, which is permeated by two ideas:
- Only once you find your passion can you become really good at what you do.
- This passion will magically carry you through years of hard work, because suddenly, every day will be fun.
If you’re fine with putting your life into the hands of chance, then you can stop reading right now.
Or, you can flip both of these ideas on their head.
Read MoreHow To Make Yourself Memorable With Weird Bits About Bestsellers
One of the most common conversations I remember from sitting in high school classrooms is the “Why should I remember this?”-debate.
“Why should I memorize where carbon is in the periodic table of elements, if I can just look it up any second on my phone?”
“Why should I remember when the Vietnam War started, if it’s on Wikipedia?”
“Why should I…”
It’s true that memorizing facts simply for the sake of memorizing facts has become useless.
Except for the one case where it hasn’t:
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