2014.08.26 On Risk-Taking

“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” ― Randy Komisar, Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

I am so worried that I wont be able to make heads or tails of my life. That I won’t make a difference, that my life won’t matter. I grind every day to make money doing something I have no real passion for. The only thing that keeps me going is staying up late working myself into the ground in the empty hours of the day

I frantically fill up the empty hours of the day with more work–an attempt to build something that I can eventually create a life of meaning around.

Am I being complacent? Am I playing it safe?

“We have a large minority of people who simply do not want to do better. They don’t want to get married. They don’t want to raise their children in sensible normal conditions. They don’t want to work hard in order to achieve success. They don’t value education. They don’t believe in taking responsibility for their life choices. They don’t believe in self-reflection. They think someone owes them something. They feel entitled to other people’s success. Everything that is counter-productive and dysfunctional they gravitate towards.”