Thread by @Mrpossidez

If you’re a young person trying to find your feet, trying to hold down what you’re currently into and you keep doubting yourself, this is for you.

You will be shocked at how many incompetent people are bulldozing their ways through life and winning, simply because they’re not insecure. So ruthless about life, they’re not worried by the fact that anyone would think they’re not good enough.

You will be shocked at the number of competent, creative and intelligent people who literally get lost in this world because they are insecure. Some completely forget they were always in the conversation. They never do. So they never become.

You’re insecure for a reason. It is valid. Maybe past failure, a solid acceptance that you’re probably not made for what it is you do. But here’s a funny possibility: with the same capacity and in the same circumstance, far less competent people have excelled at it.

When you feel inadequate, first understand why. If it is valid and factual, find the courage to try something else or get through it by leveraging on associated competencies. When you finally can, try something else.

If your doubt is perceptive, you just somehow feel like you’re not going to be good at it simply because of how you perceive it, then use this perspective: anything you have put effort into, leaves you better. If talent doesn’t do it, growth will. It always does.

Everything you see today — the most sophisticated versions of every day life — are products of effort and consistency. Try, not always to immediately excel or see results, but because every effort stretches you to grow. And effort is mostly what it takes.

And I will always say this: whenever you lack courage to do anything productive, remember that every person you see wear an exaggerated version of themselves. Inwardly, we’re mostly a series of self-defeats. Do it or not, life will simply go on.

Let people motivate you. Compete with the courage that people have; not the results or silver linings peculiar to them. Courage is how people live on their own terms. So do it for you. You’re you. And no one else can be youer than you.