Good People, Bad Mindsets
I'm just going to jump right into this. People want you to fail. Plain and simple. It sounds a little harsh and unrealistic at first, however if you consider the following you will realize that it is true. While most people will not come out and say it directly, we as a culture are indirectly bred to think this way. From the time we are born, we are exposed to countless media outlets that scream "No matter how much you have, it is not enough."
We are trained from a very young age to believe that we need to look a certain way, have a certain thing, or act a certain way in order to be considered successful, or even in a lot of cases "normal". After years of being surrounded by this, our minds are predestined to behave in a certain way. When a person hears of another persons success, hundreds of thoughts will immediately be thrown around in their head, among which most will be negative.
No matter how good an idea you may present to a friend, 90% of the time they will give you 1000 or more reasons for why that idea will not work. They don't do this in a manner that is direct and insulting, and in fact usually portray it as an attempt to help you. "But have you thought about this?", "Do you realize how much that will cost?", "I'm only trying to help", and so on. The fact is they are trained to think that way because subconsciously their brain is telling them that you may succeed, and leave them behind. It's a natural tendency that is very hard to fight against. Most people don't even realize what they're doing and truly believe they are being helpful by offering "logical" advice. But the fact is, unless they are speaking from 100% personal experience, the only "logical" advice they have are ideas that their brain has generated on the fly. They're good people, they just have bad mindsets.
Get Out of Your Way
In the same way other people try to get in the way of our success, we too have a tendency to get in the way of our own success. Given the same principals as above, a lot of people over many years of exposure to today's culture begin to feel that no matter what they do, they will never have enough. As I've once said already, we are basically brainwashed from a young age to believe we will never have enough, and after hearing this nonsense for so long, we almost have no choice but to believe it's true.
Here's the truth. If you don't make a conscious effort to discover your skills, and other things that make you yourself, you will inevitably fall into a state of mind that tells you that you're no better than anyone else. So many people actually believe they haven't a single thing at all to offer this world, and that is truly a disease of the brain if I have ever heard of one. If you want to think that way, then you WILL be just like everyone else. But I can assure you there is no fun in that. Each of us have our own set of skills, ambitions, and goals and it's those things that set us apart from everyone else. The fact is, though, that most people will not act on many of those skills, or ambitions, or goals and therefore will fall into the same place that 90% of the world falls into. If any of us were given the literal choice one day to conquer all of our goals and get the most out of life, or to fall into contempt and die peacefully bored, we would obviously choose the first.
The truth is, however, we DO have that choice. We fortunately get to make that choice every day we wake up. The sad truth is that most people will choose the second option. Why? Because it's easy. It's really easy to just get out of bed everyday, go to work, eat dinner, then go back to bed and do it all over again the next day. We as a culture love cycles. We love tradition. Why? Because we know what to expect. If we didn't have a routine to follow, we would never know what to expect, and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. But here's the truth. You can die peacefully bored, or you can live life with a little uncertainty and quite probably change the world. Get out of your way, you have big things to do.
Ok I'm Ready! Now What
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Kyle Ferguson
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