What Are You Doing?

Discovering just a few days ago that my website had been down sent me into a spiral and was a jarring wake-up call. It was not an intentional break which why is the realization was deeply unsettling. My website started as Evidence for myself. It was intended as tangible proof that I wasn’t letting time slip by unmarked. To have forgotten it entirely—so much so that I didn’t even notice it was offline—forced me to confront what I have truly been doing with my time. 

Time is deeply important—paramount, even!

I am so glad to have consumed just enough knowledge at my age to understand the privilege of being young and having a nuanced understanding of its true value.

If there is one principle I am committed to in my life, it is to listen to the insights of successful people. I will discuss mentorship and its significant importance in a later blog post. For now, I will concentrate on a common theme that emerges from all the interviews, podcasts, and readings about the successful people I admire: TIME.

The critical advantage of starting early. There is an unparalleled advantage of exploring opportunities early in life, when you are young, the costs and risks are significantly lower compared to when you're older. 

Start things and fail at them quicker, you can recover from losses much quicker when you’re younger than older. 

I also recently recognized that I find strict and rigid people particularly unsettling because I hate to discover my failures to myself from others- an ego thing. There is no room for ego in learning and understanding what you need to do.

Friends who balance empathy with a grounding focus on your goals are invaluable. We don’t need to be coddled every time we let ourselves down; we need strict, uncompromising friends who will point out when we’re falling short.

My fear of underperforming is so profound and can be so deeply overwhelming; as someone who talks a lot, I’m acutely aware of the stereotype that talkers often lack follow-through. The fear of underperforming haunts me, the prospect of even being associated with it terrifies me ( I also have a personal reason why this is so particular to me).

My Key Points

1. Potential remains unfulfilled without action.

2. Thinking is not working.

3. Instead of dwelling on ideas, implement them, fail quickly, and adapt. Those who have taken action and stumbled have already found paths to improvement, unlike those who are still mired in prolonged contemplation.

4. Spend less time thinking and start DOING.

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