At 18, I Met Reality (We Did Not Get Along)
At the age of 18, I was stuck because I was hunting the “perfect path.”
But I didn’t stop to think that I can’t choose the perfect path when I’ve never walked any path at all.
Tragedy for most of us in the 20s.
Just move, fail, and iterate.
It’s like being chased by a cat while searching for cheese.
You don’t need the exact route; you just need to start running in any direction that moves you away from what’s killing you.
Hate your job?
Run in the opposite direction.
Hate your environment?
Move toward anything different.
Hate the version of yourself you’ve become?
Pick the opposite direction and start walking.
Progress is built through rapid iterations, not perfect decisions.
You can hear Naval yap about this in most of his tweets.
Directionally correct beats intellectually perfect.
I came to the conclusion that you discover your thing by doing, not thinking.
By course-correcting, not overplanning.
By running from the life you don’t want
toward the life that keeps whispering, “Try me.”
PS: It was hard to accept because I had many pieces of evidence of being correct, and I was arrogant enough to think I know all, and the reality had a field day with this belief of mine.
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Ayaan Ashfaq
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At 18, I Met Reality (We Did Not Get Along)
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