We only hear about the ones who made it though; we don't hear about the failures, because they don't broadcast them: the bankrupt start-ups, the assistants who never got promoted until they quit and started over somewhere else, the ones who burned out, etc.
Not to say we shouldn't take risks or challenge ourselves, but the difficult/scary path is not inherently superior simply for being difficult and scary. If you find stability and commitment terrifying and boring, maybe that's the fear to conquer? The constant desire to see if the grass really is greener somewhere else, while overlooking all the stuff we've already accomplished to get to the stable and secure place we are now.
But I feel you. Sometimes I'm still tempted to quit everything and just move to Banff or Europe somewhere on a whim, start from scratch, etc.
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Not to say we shouldn't take risks or challenge ourselves, but the difficult/scary path is not inherently superior simply for being difficult and scary. If you find stability and commitment terrifying and boring, maybe that's the fear to conquer? The constant desire to see if the grass really is greener somewhere else, while overlooking all the stuff we've already accomplished to get to the stable and secure place we are now.
But I feel you. Sometimes I'm still tempted to quit everything and just move to Banff or Europe somewhere on a whim, start from scratch, etc.
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