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Shane Parrish
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Social media is full of people that say look how amazing my life is ... but that's not real. No one's life is amazing all the time.
The more time you spend online the more inclined you are to think that other people's lives are amazing and in comparison, yours just doesn't measure up. But you don't see ...
the negatives because no one ever shows you anything negative anymore... The virtual world has turned into a curated playground that makes us feel bad about ourselves.
I can't remember a week where I've had so many amazing highs and so many terrible lows. The delta has never been so wide. But the messy middle isn't something to be avoided. If you let it, it can show us who we really are and what we consider important.
I think it's important to talk about the messy middle ... because we all go through it. And when we do we feel alone. Well, you're not alone, I'm right there with you.
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Shane Parrish
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The minute you need to justify it to someone else, the idea has to be defendable and somewhat rational to get approval. Disproportionate success, however, comes from ideas that don’t make sense. Another search engine? Google. Beds for conferences? AirBNB. A cloud platform? AWS.
Doing what’s defendable is a path to mediocrity
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Shane Parrish
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That feeling when you give it all you have and life still kicks your ass.
My old high school football coach used to say ... If you give it everything you have and you fail you’ll have one night of bad sleep but if you don’t give it everything you have and you fail you will think about how you should have for the rest of your life.
My Mom used to say ... “If you never risk failure, you’ll never really get what you want. Success is often nothing more than getting up one more time than you fell down. Now, have a cookie and get some rest so you can try again tomorrow.”
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Shane Parrish
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Successful people go to great lengths to make success appear simple and obvious.
We tend to think that hiding labour, struggles, and even failures impresses people or makes success seem more legitimate.
In reality, because of our ignorance to the struggle, we think “success” is easier than it actually is. Examining our own lives, we start to feel bad about ourselves ... and lose confidence and resolve ... asking ourselves, why, if success is so easy that it evades us.
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