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The road you take

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If you navigate the internet in search of answers and all you get is confusion and frustration, you are not any different from most of us.

And it is not that people are mean and they don’t want to let you in their own secret.

The point is that there is no secret.

There are probably hundreds of roads to get where you are going. Some of them seem similar, some are very different, some contradict each other. Some are cryptic, some are clear, some seem to go in completely different direction but are actually the two sides of a same coin.

It’s easy to get lost on roads that others have built for themselves.

That’s when you understand that the only road that matters is the one you choose to take. Every day.

Stories over numbers

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Numbers come after stories, and stories others can relate to come after stories we can relate to.

We like to think of the world as a rational place, where people make decisions based on a set of available information. Of course, that is far from what we experience every day.

If you want to inspire action you need to remind this.

Joy and success

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Joy comes from doing something you would do independently of the outcome.

Success – i.e., the outcome – comes from sticking with that something for long enough.

Simple, not easy.

Tension

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We live in the tension between a version of us we despise and a version of us we would like to become.

And we also live in the tension between our failures, which we see so vividly, and other people’s successes, which we fantasise a lot about.

When we get going, we often reach for the positive extreme. We are at our best and we aim to emulate those who have succeeded before. We know we can. Then we meet criticism, bad weather, rejection, difficulties of various kind, and we fall to the negative extreme. We are suddenly incapable to complete the most trivial task, unworthy of anybody’s attention, care, empathy.

Most reality, though, happens in the middle. And that’s also where we can anchor to achieve real and incremental progress.

It’s when we embrace the version of us we are today and the work we are doing today – neither bad nor good – that we get rid of the tension and we can start enjoying the journey.

The questions right

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When you start something new, having the questions right is more important than having the right answers.

Who is going to be impacted by your work?

Who are you serving?

What are their expectations?

Answers can only be found by asking. The fact that they lie somewhere in your previous experience and your knowledge of the world is just a myth.