Thread by @theBuoyantMan

That time in your school days when you believed EVERYTHING was possible if you set your heart into it?

It's time to tap into that zone/space in your head and believe in things again.

As an adult, the world corrupts your positivity.

I "KNOW" how much unbridled optimism I had back in college, and how much I have left now, after being exposed to the real world.

Back then, I felt I could do anything if I single mindedly pursued it.

I didn't care about the odds. Even if the odds were 1 in 10000, I took it.

I took one such odds against me situation and did win too.

But this was back in school and college.

Since I came to job, that part of my mind has gone dull or rather stifled I'd say.

Everywhere I went, I heard people saying

"you can't do that!"

"it's not possible"

"it's very difficult that it won't be worth your time and energy"

"it's not possible for people like us"

Exposing myself to these sentences, and being around people who genuinely believed those things slowly deteriorated my optimism, beliefs, and simply put, me.

It went on for a long time that it has caused an irreversible and irrevocable shift - towards the down side.

When you go a long time without introspecting or having an inner dialogue with yourself, when you have no time to talk to yourself, you often let your subconscious pick up on whatever things are thrown at you.

After all, you only have so much energy to deal with work itself.

In such life circumstances, its easy to let things pass through your subconscious without any filter or introspection.

Once you do that, there's no going back.

Undoing it is THE HARDEST thing you'll ever do.

So, time and time again, revisit the part of your childhood or adolescence when you believed everything was possible and did something you're proud of, to date.

Nothing has changed. You're still that person deep down, who could pick something up and accomplish against all odds.

You just need to push out all the negative conditioning you have in your head.

You can do that, or

go back to that headspace of that optimistic teenager, and fill your head with that every day, that everything else that's irrelevant has to move out.

This is the only way to accomplish anything in today's day and age. There's no other way or path that I can see.

I regularly keep going back to that 9th standard kid I was who everyone told won't amount to much, despite which he was very optimistic he will.

The same way, you'd have at least one or two instances in life where you believed that you could do anything if you set your heart into it.

That's the necessity of the hour.

Get started.

Close your eyes.

Revisit that kid.

And, ask him/her to take over.