the last mindset you should need for success:

—you are pretty fucking good as you are and however bad you fail and compromise yourself (which unlikely you will) — you just DON’T CARE

—you love your work and only do what you love and subsequently what you do you do to the absolute best of your ability: ever learning, ever open-minded, ever improving

the first takes care of impediments

the second takes care of growth

done

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say what you will but you do care what others think. It’s in your genes. It’s in your evolutionary adaptation.

And say what you will but you are not completely naturally predisposed to growth, to evolution. You are quite predisposed to stagnation. But when you only supplant this desire for certainty of stagnation — love can flourish and curiosity can flourish.

And once you don’t care about the consequences and are genuinely, lovingly ready to IMMERSE yourself, in exploration, in creation — the rest takes care of itself.