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📜 The fallacy of playing by the rules

Published over 1 year ago • 1 min read

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Young, naive, rather innocent, I played by "the rules".

Let me save you some hard lessons early in your climb.

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If I just find the perfect job, I’ll be fulfilled and secure for life. Those words, those conventional wisdom were nothing but a delusion.

The first time I was given a rude awakening—yes, the first—was at an internship. An internship where dreams go to die. What’s so bad about it, you ask? Being a cog in the machine, I think, crushing you with their banality and tortuous meaninglessness.

Can't go far without purpose.

The second rude awakening came with a company-wide reorg. The announcement hit like a punch to the gut: the office was closing, and everyone was given an ultimatum—relocate to another state or face layoff.

Every cog is dispensable.

James Altucher said, “Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen. You will resent people. You will do a bad job. You’ll have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on. You will make less money. And yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying ‘I did it again”

Choose your purpose, choose yourself.

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Lena

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