everyone takes the limits of their own
vision for the limits of the world
arthur schopenhauer there is all around
you right now the reflections of your
world belief they're so ever-present
that you don't even see them all the
assumption that you've made about the
world the things that are possible what
you're capable of who you are the very
definition of what it means to be alive
all of it is completely invisible and
you're mistaken what you have for what
could be and once you break free of that
Once you understand that right now
you're a moment in time and that you
have latent potential and that latent
potential can be expressed in the form
of skills that you can get good at
things, that you can develop yourself in
any direction, that brain plasticity
alone is one of the greatest weapons
that you're not using, but you have to
move beyond what you can perceive today
you have to begin to look beyond that
and see that which doesn't yet exist.
You have to remember that many of the
things that are holding you down are rules
that you don't even realize are rules
and as General Douglas MacArthur said
"You're remembered for the rules you break,"
and right now you're following
rules that you don't even realize exist
and some of those rules are simply what
is okay to dream but I'm here to tell YOU
the power is in recognizing that you
can do it. The power is in having the
arrogance of belief. The power is an
understanding that you, yes YOU are going
to be capable of something simply
because you are willing to believe in
yourself and that's the thing it's a
willingness to believe in yourself no
one's going to give it to you even the
people that love you they're not going
to give you that they are incapable of
giving it to you people cannot see past
their limitations and they take them for
truth people actually believe the things
that have stopped them will forever not
only stop them but they will stop other
people how can they hope to give you
anything but limitation so if you know
that if you know that even the people
that love you what they're handing you
with limitation with the best of fucking
intentions with all the love in the
world
how are you going to break out of that
how are you going to break past those
rules how are you going to fight the
anxiety that inevitably comes your way
when you think about going against the
grain but my friends until you can do
that you can never get beyond the
bullshit that limits you if people said
gravity is what it is we never would
have reached the escape velocity and yet
as a species we have been able to hurl a
fucking rocket into space get it outside
of gravity take us to other planets that
is real only because somebody said I
refuse to be held down by the most
obvious rule that we have the one that
everybody says is beyond reproach and
that is gravity but even gravity will
break under the weight of a superior
will so recognize with Epictetus said if
you want to improve be content to be
thought foolish and stupid can you be
content to be thought foolish and stupid
or do you allow yourself to be caged to
be hemmed in by what other people think
and look I get it I understand the theme
of contempt I understand how much it
sucks when someone you respect doesn't
respect you but you cannot be anything
more than their captive if you think
about what they think about you if you
let yourself be defined by what other
people perceive us as you then you will
forever be limited by what they give you
permission to do and I don't know about
you but when I was a kid I said when I'm
an adult I will never fucking be told
what to do again I will never be held
back by somebody else I will define
myself I will figure out what I need to
do and I will do it and at the end of
the day that is it my goals drive my
behavior I am NOT held back by what
other people think about me no matter
how fucking intoxicating it is to be
loved you have to decide what you want
more do you want to be you or do you
want to be someone else's reflection of
you