We cause our problems
What is a problem?
“You need this”
“You must that”
“You do this and that”
Still “lack that” and what-else
You don’t really need any of that shit, obviously
Eat something that drops under your nose
Find some hole in the ground or cave
Put some fire
Find a woman or a pet
Do your (simple) fucking duty and go to sleep
We cause our problems
We don’t need any of that shit but we still chase it
We don’t just chase it but we put pressure on ourselves for having it and NOT having it
We want it bigger, better, and sooner
Our sick expectations are deranged and impossible
We sell our souls for our goals, in a true spirit of this childish heroism, so very human
Should you move to the cave?
Probably
You probably own too much
(You also own too little – with all your possessions borrowed)
You probably work too much
You probably want too much
No better cure then simplicity
If you don’t plan on moving to some fucking cave, then at least understand that you are your problem,
You mismanage your life
You overestimate how much you’ll make
You underestimate how much time you will take
You overestimate your ability
You underestimate the unknown
And you want too much
We take on those tasks we can’t finish
By giving up we create this habit of failure. It’s terrible. And when you create a habit of failure — you are a failure.
By not giving up we suffer. We abuse our willpowers and our bodies and our souls for the arbitrary scores. It’s a live lived on an imagined score sheet — and thus not lived at all.
Don’t take on tasks you can’t finish. Take on tasks you can finish — then ADD EXTRA.
Start small. Then grow it.
Never talk. Only do. What you said is both your yoke and your limitation. It will cut your wings when you’re flying — but kick you when you’re down.
Think twice — yet still assume you’re an idiot.
Because you will be wrong.
You don’t want your mistakes to overwhelm you.
Prepare for the worst obviously — which is double or triple or quadruple your ignorance.
Think twice or more. You may just stumble upon some ideas which you use in your next project.
See this is how we create our problems,
Instead of assets we accrue liabilities
We give up our time
Give up our cash
…in advance!
Then tie ourselves with commitments
Commit ourselves for years to finishing this and that
Commit our earnings for years to paying off this useless house and that useless car
We do this long term and short term
Always find ways to make it hard for ourselves
If you’re not smart enough for problems then get rid of them
Go smoke some weed with some bum
let the bank take your house
I said if you’re not smart enough for problems then get rid of them
Can you be smart about problems?
Do what you can do
Do what doesn’t overwhelm you
Do what you do well
Give it not 100% but 200% your best
But do what you CAN do well
You are told you can do anything but it’s ok if you do fuck all
Your 200% may not be enough for the pipe dream you undertook
Be smart about how smart you are
Don’t get into trouble
One more time:
-don’t do more then you can do
-don’t do what you can’t do
-do much much less then you can do — the rest is extra
-don’t delude yourself with what you can do
if you break any of those rules — you know why you’re so stressed and challenged and ineffective
You can continue on your delusion, you can blame the world for your problems — or realize that you brought every single one of your problems
Because you did
Every fortuity, every “bad luck” that happened to you — only happened because you were not ready for it
You knew your system was fragile.
You didn’t have any free time left should the things delay
You didn’t have the money left when the market miraculously eluded the predictions
And you merely matched the task with your ability to the extent to which it was going smoothly: not when the unpredictable started predictably happening
There is no such thing as bad luck
If you were doing nothing — you wouldn’t have bad luck
NOR good luck
Luck is identical with action
Problems are identical with action
…problems are identical with action.
If you take action — you have problems.
If you don’t want problems — take a break.
If you want less problems — be smart about your actions.
Take responsibility for your problems
Be simple and flexible
Modest about expectations but limitless in possibilities
Safe in precautions but thus disposed to greater risks
Build the strongest foundations KNOWN TO MEN
THEN EXPAND, EXPLODE, from that steady ground
With joy and inspiration and power
Not under the yokel of necessity and hands tied with constraints
Get over this “PROBLEMS” thing
Get rid of all the problems, then get rid of problems in advance
THEN do what you want, THEN expand