Realized I was taking the nonspecific, unpersonalized, marketable advice on reels to heart during a hard time. Get off reels ! Talk to your mom, your friend, your therapist, not content creators.
It’s cool to learn new things, it’s cool to develop some new skills. It’s cool to be able to access a whole bunch of data and knowledge at your fingertips.
Don’t let some guy on a podcast become your father figure or give you financial advice or try to anoint you with another monolithic identity not too dissimilar from the one you vowed to leave behind.
Life doesn’t get any better, but YOU do.
We analyze our mistakes and accidents but successful people typically don’t know what they did that made them successful (or it was money/connections).
2. If my brain says something rude about me, something that would make me want to punch someone who said it about my friend, I throw it right out. Not even I get to be rude to me.
