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You Need to Get Lost Before You Can Find Yourself
It’s time to stop waiting for your dreams to come true
The great paradox of our existence is that our human brains desire novelty and stasis at the same time. We want to experience new things, but we don’t want to get out of our blanket fort.
This is why many of us are drawn to get-rich-quick schemes and self-help quackery. We love the idea of getting what we want without sacrifice or work.
We are hypnotized by promises of growth without discomfort. But such promises are always empty.
The only way to experience the exultation of the hero’s triumph is to leave on a hero’s journey.
Instead, most of us sit around waiting. We wait to be discovered, to win the lottery, to find the perfect AI scheme for riches without effort, or we wait for someone else to show us the way to our dream life. Many of us don’t even have dreams of our own. We take our cues from celebrities and influencers, vacillating between the blank white walls of minimalism one moment and buying some new AI-powered gadget the next. We end up stuck, hoping for something in our lives to change.
