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Stop Asking. Start Doing.
Friends, family, and readers often ask me what made me decide to do what I do now. And to be honest, I wish I could give people a straightforward answer.
But I don’t have an explanation for how I found my calling, passion, meaning, or whatever you want to call it.
The closest I got was: Just try a lot of things, step outside of your comfort zone, and see what happens.
It’s an honest answer. I’m never afraid to say “I don’t know,” when people ask me a question. I think people often feel the urge to give an answer when someone asks them a question.
Stop Trying To Figure Out Life
Life is pretty awesome, isn’t it? But it’s also difficult to figure out life.
I often hear grownups say: “Do you remember how awesome it was to be a kid?” For most of us, that’s true. When we look back, we see how simple our life was.
When you’re young, you play with your toys, go to school, hang out, play sports, etc. But as you grow up, life gets more complicated by the year.
- First, you have to decide whether you go to college or not.
- Then, you have to decide what you want to become.
- You have to get a job.
- You start thinking about settling down.
- You get a car.
- You get a mortgage to buy a house.
- You have bills to pay. Maybe you have debt.
- Maybe you get a dog.
- How about marriage? Yup. Definitely.
- And then kids.
Stop Trying To Be Realistic
We always try to think in “realistic” terms about everything:
- “It can’t be done.”
- “What? Do you want to build an airplane? You’re crazy.”
- “You’ll never make it.”
- “Everyone fails and so will you.”
- “1,000 songs in your pocket? You must be kidding, right?”
- “An electrical car with a range of 300 miles? What’s next? A time machine?”
- “You want to be an artist? It’s safer to get a job.”
- “Why would you travel the world?”
What does it take when everyone tells you that you’re wrong? Delusion. At least, a little of it.
What To Do When You Screw Up Badly
I’ve screwed up so many times in my life that I lost count. One of my favorite mistakes is when I became homeless for 5 days in London.
That is a good story now, but believe me, I was scared out of my mind at the time. I’d recently moved to London, I had no friends, no family — and yet I managed to get kicked out of my apartment, without having a new place to live.