Tag: resistance

Absorbed

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When you are absorbed into something for a continued period, you end up hating that thing, wanting to run away from it, falling for the first new object in front of you.

Of course, that does not reflect your true feelings, it’s just a reaction. To being depleted, to not getting where you want to go, to the fact you had to leave behind a lot of other different, possible things.

And of course, that is also the moment you have to stick with it. Take a break, leave it for a while, enjoy something less absorbing, and eventually go back to your obsession to find it renewed.

It’s the only way to become a pro.

Habit

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What habits do you know you would stick to no matter what?

Developing habits takes time and dedication, and yet once the habit becomes such, it’s the most solid thing to fall back upon in times of need.

It is worth the effort.

No shortcut

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Once you have mastered the first ten numbers – from 0 to 9 – and understood the system that gets you to 19, it is quite easy to figure out how to count to 100, 1,000, 1,000,000.

This is true for many things. You need to put in the work in the beginning to learn the basics and understand the system, then things will get gradually easier as you do more of the same.

If you keep skipping the 7 when you count 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, all you can do is repeat until you get it right.

There is no shortcut.

Finite

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At any one point in time there’s an infinite number of possibilities around you. The number of possibilities to do good is infinite as well.

Sounds like a positive thing, and it is, but if you keep moving from one possibility to the next, if you are overwhelmed by their numbers, if you lose focus distracted by the closest or fanciest one over and over again, that is equivalent to not having any possibility at all.

The understanding that you are finite and can only commit to a limited number of things in the course of your lifetime is needed to make an impact.

Facade

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This is an historical period that is completely out of the ordinary.

Exceptions are made, circumstances are raised, needs are shaped. Yet, we should be careful using all of this as an excuse to deviate from our path.

In most cases, we can still continue pursuing what we were pursuing before. The values, beliefs, rules we have set at the indivual level do not necessarily have to be questioned.

Unless of course those were just a convenient facade.

A good way to understand this is by counting how many times we say “considering the current circumstances” to excuse ourselves for what we are about to say and do. It could be telling.